The Old Ways
About the farm
Regenerative farming
Sometimes the old ways are the best
We are passionate about family farms which provide their communities with nutritionally dense food.
'The Old Ways' Regenerative Farming practices high welfare farming systems which mimic nature and improve biodiversity and soil health.
The Old Ways
About the farm
Using pigs and poultry, we aim to make significant ecological improvements to our land as well as producing free range eggs, Christmas turkeys and traditional dry cured bacon and sausages of the tastiest degree!
As new entrants to agriculture, it can be difficult to gain access to land. We are enormously lucky to have neighbours in Philip and Julia Colfox at Symondsbury Estate, who were excited to collaborate in a joint venture with us in the Regenerative Agriculture space. They are pivotal to us being able to achieve our lifelong dream to farm, process and market meat and egg products to our local community.
Symondsbury Estate sits outside Bridport in West Dorset. The land is beautifully undulating and criss-crossed by ancient Holloways which were used to transport goods and livestock from country to coast.
Woodland, cropping and permanent pasture dot the landscape in equal measure and wildlife thrives in this environment which benefits from a metre of rainfall per year.
We raise Duroc x Tamworth pigs in the woods and on pasture for their entire life. Our Bronze turkeys leave the brooder at eight weeks and spend the rest of their life on pasture and the same can be said for our flock of laying hens.
We practice Regenerative livestock systems which constantly give the animals fresh ground to roam and vegetation to eat. The idea of farming mimicking nature is not a new one but one which we choose to enhance in order to allow the animals the ability to express their most natural behaviour and to produce nutritionally dense food.