We had a delayed start to this year’s re-stocking, thanks to the wet weather in late winter/early spring. But now we are getting ready for the busy season. Hogget is back in stock, or available for pre-booking. We have a few ‘Vikings’ coming soon (both pure North Ronaldsay and crosses). To reflect the increasing prices […]
It’s been another busy year for meatboxes! Thank you to all our customers who bought our hogget, viking or mutton boxes this year. We usually stop all orders around mid-November, as the abattoir starts to get busy and the couriers become less reliable as the vans fill up with Christmas parcels. This year, we are […]
Recently a customer asked me why the hogget he had ordered was labelled as ‘mutton’ on each package. He wondered (understandably) if we had sent him the wrong box. This led me to think about what we really mean by the terms ‘hogget’ and ‘mutton’, how our butcher defines them and what is most important […]