About The Team

Our background

Eversfield Organic is an 850 acre organic farm nestling deep in the heart of the Devon countryside on the edge of Dartmoor.  The family held a lifelong ambition to own a small estate in the heart of the country. 

The Eversfield Organic team wanted to change the blueprint for the newly expanded estate and set about creating a model organic farm from scratch, complete with plans for a state of the art fully EU licensed cutting plant. This ensured that ´Eversfield quality´ was maintained throughout the process; from farming their organic livestock through to hanging the meat onsite to develop the flavour, then the all important skilled butchery and finally the packaging and shipping of the customer orders.

Under the aegis of the Countryside Stewardship Scheme the family began work on a long term program to restore the traditional Devon landscape. The old orchards that are an important feature of all Devon farms have been replanted. Miles of hedgerow have been re-established; the woods have been cleared of their scrubby undergrowth; 30,000 new trees have been planted, and the Culm grasslands and lowland hay meadows have been returned to their natural state, maintained with a strict grazing regime. Gradually, the old, depleted rye grass pastures have been ploughed in – with a little help from the Eversfield pigs! - and reseeded with traditional herb rich leys. Full organic status from the Soil Association was achieved in 2004.

Our Meat

Organic farming works best when original, native breeds of livestock are kept. Eversfield Organics’ team and their farm manager selected the best livestock breeds which when combined with traditional organic farming methods produces the very best quality meat.

Eversfield Organic Beef, is dark and deeply marbled with supreme flavour. Eversfield has a unique herd of ‘Heritage’ Aberdeen Angus. These are wonderfully stocky, hardy cows that thrive on the species rich rough grazing of the ‘Culm’ grasslands. We breed all our cattle on the farm. As the only estate in the world with the near extinct ‘Prestige’ bloodline of traditional native Aberdeen Angus, we have an active breeding programme to make sure that this important line is saved for posterity.

Eversfield Organic lamb, is born and reared on our farm from a flock of mixed sheep comprising Romney Marsh (the same breed used for New Zealand lamb) and Suffolk cross Mules. This type of sheep is ideally suited to forage the lowland meadows and Culm grassland of the Estate and live outdoors year round only coming inside for lambing. Our Spring Lamb is available from July onwards having been allowed to suckle for an extended period before weaning gently onto grass at around 4 months.

Eversfield Organic Pork, In March 2007 the family rescued a group of pigs from a local farmer who was giving up on pig farming. The pigs were destined for slaughter until we took the characteristic ´brave´ step of taking on pig farming at a time when many were leaving pig production due to the high costs of feed and relatively low returns.
The pig herd is now well and truly established with a breeding group of Sows and one very happy albeit busy Boar! The pigs are a mixture of Large White and Medam sows with Large Black sows all renowned for producing quality pork. Our pigs live outdoors in large fenced of meadows, allowed to forage naturally and root about for grubs and plants. We supplement their diet with organic feed and they have large pig arc shelters to protect them from the sun, wind and rain. Our pigs are an important part of the rotation of our organic pastures. The farm now has a regular supply of superb Award Winning organic pork, bacon, sausages and joints, all carefully prepared by our butchers and packed on-site.

Merrifield Farm, is run by Peter and Sue. It is situated in the Devon countryside outside of Crediton. They pride themselves on producing top quality chicken and ducks that give a true flavour of the product. Our skilled butchers can prepare chicken to order as whole roasting chickens, chicken drumsticks, and chicken breast or diced for casserole.

Wonnacott Farm is run by the Yells family tucked away in the Devon country side. They have their own breeding flock of Norfolk Black Turkeys which is a traditional slow-growing breed that is renowned for quality. The turkeys enjoy a home grown mix of organic cereals as well as foraging for themselves for acorns, stinging nettles, docks and blackberries. In December the Turkeys don’t have the stress of travelling anywhere else. They are killed and plucked entirely by hand on the farm.

Eversfield Organic non organic Wild Venison & Wild Game is produced during the game season. Our gamekeeper manages several small herds of wild Red deer and Roe deer to ensure conservation standards. We also run a successful commercial pheasant shoot on the Eversfield Estate. This means that our butchers are able to supply wild venison and pheasant subject to availability in the winter months. The wild deer make their home on our organic Eversfield Estate grazing in our meadows and woodland, but since we don’t control their diet we cannot describe the meat as organic venison.