Enstone Meat Co.
Dry-aged beef, sausage and bacon, cutting for the shop and the pub. Enstone, 5 miles from the farm gate, supplying this shop since January 2021.
What they make.
Dry-aged beef, sausage and bacon, cutting for the shop and the pub. It is a butcher first and a supplier to this shop second, which is the correct order and worth stating: nothing here depends on us, and none of these businesses would close if we stopped ordering.
They have been supplying the farm shop since January 2021, which makes them one of the longer-standing relationships in a chapter where the average is about four years.
What we sell of theirs.
On the shelf
- Cotswold sausage, 400g
- The single biggest-selling chilled line
- Dry-aged sirloin
- 35 days, cut to order
- Beef mince, 500g
- From the same carcasses, not a separate supply
- Bones for stock
- Free, if you ask
The relationship
- Supplying since
- January 2021
- Distance
- 5 miles from the shop, straight line
- Payment terms
- 14 days from invoice
- Listing fee
- None, and there never has been
- Exclusivity
- None either wayThey sell to whoever they like, and so do we
- Mark held
- Beef, pork and sausage · currentBacked by Diddly Squat
Prices are set by the producer, not by us. Where a line has a fixed retail price it is because they asked for one, which two of the nine do.
What went wrong. Two of our own cattle went in and did not come back as ours. They were cut on a day when the batch labelling ran ahead of the carcasses and the paperwork stopped matching the meat about halfway through the morning. Nothing unsafe happened and nobody was misled about species or origin, but for about six hours we could not honestly say which animal a particular tray came from, and provenance you cannot evidence is not provenance. We stopped the line, binned the affected labels, and both sites now run a single batch sheet that travels with the carcass.
Sixteen miles, and what that actually means here.
This producer is 5 miles from the shop door. Under the planning condition that governs what the farm shop may sell, that is what makes them stockable at all — not the quality, not the story, and not whether they photograph well.
It is worth being blunt about the consequence: if they moved twenty miles away we could not sell their food, however good it was. The rule takes no view on merit.
- Distance
- 5 miles
- Since
- January 2021
- Lines stocked
- 4
At a glance.
On the public register
With the audit date and the next one due.
Paid in fourteen days
From invoice, not from delivery.
5 miles away
Inside the planning radius, comfortably.
One failure published
Above, with the party at fault named.
The other producers.
Chadlington Bakehouse
Sourdough, cottage loaves and a morning bun that sells out by ten.
Cotswold Curd
Raw-milk hard cheese in 12kg truckles, matured on board.
Windrush Smokery
Cold-smoked trout, dry-cured back bacon and smoked butter.
Sarsden Apiary
Cotswold honey, hive by hive, unblended.
Dean Market Garden
Salad, roots and brassicas on two and a half acres.
Bruern Mill
Stoneground flour, milled slow enough not to cook the grain.
Supply the shop yourself.
If you are inside the radius and make something we do not already have, the route in is short.
