A little honesty to start with: there was a time I dreaded sending our meat out.

If you've followed our farm for a while, you'll know I've never been comfortable putting our meat in the hands of a courier. We'd package an order up with real care, it would go off overnight, and arrive the next day — and on that night, I barely slept. I'd lie awake worrying. Had it travelled okay? Would it turn up the way it left us? Because it isn't just a parcel, is it. It's a freezer full of meat we've raised from birth, it's a lot of someone's hard-earned money, and once it left our gate it was completely out of our hands.

Why a courier never sat right with us

Our last nationwide delivery actually went really well — almost everything arrived exactly as it should. One box heading down to London looked a little worse for wear by the time it got there, though the meat inside was perfectly fine. And that's the thing: "mostly fine" just isn't good enough for me. Not when you've trusted us with your order, and not when there's a whole freezer's worth of good meat riding on it.

We put months of work into every animal — raising them well, feeding them right, doing things properly. The idea of all that care ending with a parcel left on the wrong doorstep or knocked about in transit never sat easily.

So we made a decision: we deliver it ourselves

Rather than keep worrying, we've changed how we do things. Where we can, we now deliver your meat ourselves. I set aside the day, load up, and make the journey — however far it happens to be.

It means I can hand your order over knowing it's travelled safely, kept properly, and arrived exactly as it should. No lying awake hoping someone else has looked after it. Just your meat, brought to you by the people who raised it.

The farmer on your doorstep

Here's the part I love most. When we deliver to you, it isn't just the farmer who produced your food — it's the farmer on your doorstep, handing it over in person.

That means you can ask me anything. How the animals are reared. How to cook a cut you've never tried before. What's coming into season next. You get to put a face to your food and have a proper natter about where it's come from — and honestly, that's how it should be. It's the bit a supermarket can never give you.

How far will we go? Further than you'd think

We're a small Derbyshire farm, but our meat travels a fair old way. A lot of it heads down south, and in a few weeks our furthest journey yet is a whole cow order going all the way to East Sussex — which I'll be driving down myself.

I love that our little farm reaches that far. And if you're closer to home, even better — I'd dearly love more of our local folk to discover there's proper, traceable farm meat right on their doorstep.

Three ways to get your meat

However near or far you are, there's a way to get ours:

• Nationwide delivery — brought to your door, hand-delivered by us where we can.
• Local delivery — anytime, for those nearer the farm.
• Click & collect — pop to the farm and pick yours up, and see where it's all raised.

Raised here. Cut here. And now delivered by us, to you. That's the way we always wanted it to be.

Our outdoor-reared pork, hogget and grass-fed Dexter beef are available now. Have a browse, and if you're local and fancy local delivery or collection, just drop us a message — we'd love to hear from you.