Producer Details: Blythburgh Free Range Pork

Jimmy Butler created Blythburgh Free Range Pork in February 2000. He identified that there was a large gap in the marketplace for a premium pork product, while at the same time the British public had begun to demand a greater understanding of where their meat comes from. The vision was to create a recognisable pork brand, the 'Aberdeen Angus' of the pig industry that would satisfy the consumers' needs for improved welfare and superior quality.

Blythburgh Free Range pigs are born on the sandy soils of the Suffolk Heritage Coast. The piglets remain with their Mothers (sows) in insulated arcs for nearly four weeks until they reach a healthy size and strength to be weaned off milk onto solid food. This means the sows can have a well earned rest allowing them to recover after having so many hungry mouths to feed and the piglets are moved into large straw filled tents and huts that become their new homes.

The pigs have large acre paddocks to roam in giving them the freedom to display natural behaviours like rooting in the soil and playing with their peers. This extra space and activity not only ensures a vastly improved standard of living and welfare, but it also results in the pigs growing at a slower rate. This is for the simple reason they are burning off more calories than a pig that is sat in a concrete pen all of its life. By growing at a much slower more natural rate, Blythburgh Free Range Pork acquires a flavour and succulence that pork used to have when your Grandma used to cook the Sunday Roast.

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