Britain & Ireland · 204 verified producers · 12 events
Find the people
who raise the meat.
HonestMeat is a verified directory of independent butchers, farm shops and farms across Britain and Ireland — and a live calendar of the shows and festivals where they gather. Every listing traces to a primary source. The name is the promise.
“Honest” isn’t a slogan. Every butcher, farm and event on this site is checked against a primary source — a craft guild, a certifying body, or the producer’s own published record — and dated when we last looked.
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Producers we’d send a friend to
Blacker Hall Farm Shop
Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Graig Farm Organics
Certified organic hill farm in Dolau, Powys, operated by the Kennard family. Soil Association and Organic Farmers and Growers certified; Welsh beef, lamb, pork and poultry delivered direct across Britain.
Llandrindod Wells, Powys
Higher Hacknell Farm
Family farm in the Taw Valley, North Devon, certified by both Pasture for Life and the Soil Association. Raises South Devon and Dexter cattle alongside rare breed pigs and sheep on permanent pasture.
Umberleigh, Devon
Soil and Sea
Pasture for Life and Soil Association certified farm on the edge of Dartmoor raising native Aberdeen Angus cattle on grass only, butchered on-farm and delivered nationwide.
Bratton Clovelly, Devon
Eversfield Organic
Soil Association certified organic farm in Devon raising beef cattle, sheep, pigs and chickens on permanent organic pasture. Butchered on-farm and delivered direct to customers nationwide.
Devon
Ffynnonau Farm
135-acre farm near Abergavenny run by Ben and Julia Jones since 2019, raising Pasture for Life certified Dexter cattle and sheep on permanent grassland in Monmouthshire. Meat boxes delivered UK-wide.
Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
In the diary
Shows & festivals coming up
Westmorland County Show 2026
9–10 September 2026
Lane Farm, Milnthorpe, Cumbria
Cumbria's county show, founded in 1799, with classes for cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and alpacas, heavy and light horses, one of the largest locally produced Food Halls in the North West, a Forestry Arena and over 400 trade stands.
National Ploughing Championships 2026
15–17 September 2026
Screggan, Tullamore, Offaly
The 95th National Ploughing Championships, one of Europe's largest outdoor events, with ploughing competitions, indoor and outdoor trade exhibitions, livestock, the Enterprise Ireland Innovation Arena and the National Brown Bread Baking Competition (225,500 visitors in 2025).
Read
The case for real meat
How to find a real butcher: a field guide
A practical guide to finding a genuine independent butcher: the questions to ask, the signs to look for, and the certifications worth trusting.
How to read a British or Irish meat label
A plain-English decoder for the marks on British and Irish meat. What each certification actually verifies, ranked by how much it tells you, with the gaps named honestly.
Why “grass-fed” can mean less than you think
“Grass-fed” has no single statutory definition for retail meat in the UK, and many grass-fed animals are finished on grain. The fix is one specific certification.