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Levels' Best beef is guaranteed to be one of the distinctive British Isles native breeds. The most popular breed on the Levels is the Devon – better known as the Ruby Red – indigenous to neighbouring North Devon. You can also be sure that Levels' Best beef has grazed the natural grasslands of the Levels and fed home-grown feed during the winter months.
There is now scientific proof that grass-fed beef produces healthy red meat full of Omega 3 unsaturated fats that are the same as produced by fish, rather than the harmful saturated fats that are associated with cattle fed in cereals.
Although Devon cattle are the predominant breed on the Levels there are also Welsh Black, Aberdeen Angus and White Park – the most ancient hardy breed of British cattle.
Broadacre Farm Langport | |
All our South Devon cattle, Dorset Down sheep and Gloucester Old Spot and Saddleback pigs are free range and reared to Freedom Food standards. Our farm is managed under Countryside and Entry Level Stewardship Schemes. | |
Fursland Farm Beef Bridgwater | |
We run a small herd of Beef Shorthorn cattle which replaced a dairy a few years ago through the Traditional Breeds Incentive Scheme with English Nature - now Natural England. The cattle are reared entirely off grass and have matured slowing while grazing over three years which is what makes the meat tender and tastey. | |
Naturally Reared Meats Glastonbury | |
Rob and Liz Whitcombe rear a closed organic herd of Red Devon cattle that graze on Shapwick Heath. They also rear and sell freezer packs of tradtional breed lamb and pork. They sell the beef at the monthly Levels' Best Market in the old Stable Courtyard, Montacute House. | |
Pitney Farm Organic Produce & Shop Langport | |
Dorset Down lamb, Hereford and Welsh Black beef and a range of seasonal vegetables all produced to Soil Association organic standards. Pitney Farm Shop has just been given the Gold Award by Taste of the West for the Best Local Retail Outlet in Somerset | |
Sharpham Park (Beef) Street | |
Sharpham Park is building up a breeding herd of White Park Cattle - a rare breed which has been domesticated for more than a thousand years and has been an integral part of British parklands since the Middle Ages. The meat is fully matured, well-hung, succulent and rich in flavour. We make beef burgers, sausages as well as juicy beef and organic ale spelt (frozen) pies. | |
W N Walford & Co Langport | |
We produce traditional, seasonal beef and lamb on land that includes ESA and SSSI and is farmed under the Countryside Stewardship scheme. Summer grazing is on the pastures of the Levels and winter feed includes our own silage supplemented with home-grown barley and beans. | |
Wootton Organic Dairy Shepton Mallet | |
We have been farming for over 30 years using traditional methods, with no artifical fertilisers. In return, we have been rewarded by an abundance of diverse flowers and plant which give our eves' milk - and consequently the cheeses - their distinctive, subtle flavours. | |
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