Peak District Butchers

"Do you know where your meat comes from? Ask your butcher for meat reared on Peak District farms"

The Peak District Butchers scheme is supporting butchers who buy their beef and lamb from Peak District farmers who help look after the Peak District landscape.
Buying meat produced on local farms that care for the environment is :

   1. A rewarding way for everyone to protect the beautiful Peak District.
   2. A tasty way to save food miles
   3. A delicious way to support local businesses
   4. A fascinating way to get to know about your local farm

Meat in the Peak District Butchers scheme will have been reared on identified farms that care for the Peak District landscape under one of the following whole farm schemes, click on the scheme to find out more:

These schemes aim to safeguard the existing landscape and in some cases:

Conserve wildlife
Maintain and enhance landscape quality and character
Protect the historic environment and natural resources
Promote public access and understanding of the countryside

Supplying farms must be complying with all relevant legislation. The beef animals produced should have spent at least their three last months on the supplying Peak District farm and lambs should have been born in the Peak District and spent at least their last 60 days on a Peak District farm.

Your contribution to the local economy:

Every £10 spent on locally produced foods gets re-spent locally and leads to £25.90 being reinvested back into the local economy
Every £10 spent in a supermarket leads only to £14 being invested into the local economy

So, if every person, tourist and business switched 1% of current spend to local products, it would put an extra £1 million into the local economy each week!