Walk The Pork - The Butcher

Charlie Mills (right) with Gerard King of Suffolk Food Hall (centre) and Rob Simonds (left)

 

Almost three years ago to the day Scotts Field Pork was facing disaster. 

To cut a long story short the catering butcher that we had worked with for several years on an exclusive basis found that they were not able to pay us – leaving us in the long term having learnt a valuable lesson in credit control but in the short term scratching our heads as to how exactly we were going to pay our feed bills. 

A call for help was put through to Tastes of Anglia who in turn introduced us to Charlie Mills - the man who literally saved our bacon! 

Since then we have not looked back. Charlie has been incredibly supportive of everything that we do at Scotts Field Pork. We are not his only project - Charlie is a great fan of slow food in all it's forms as this article on The Telegraph website which focuses on Caroline Cranbrook's work in East Suffolk shows.

Here is what he has to say about Bramfield Meats and their relationship with Scotts Field Pork:

“Bramfield Meats is a fresh meat wholesaler and bacon curer based in Halesworth, Suffolk.  We supply high class family butchers, farm shops and caterers. We are always on the lookout for the best product our money can buy us, we look under rocks and through hedges for something special and different to offer to our customers. 

About 3 years, I had the good fortune to come across Robert and Sarah Simonds and we stumbled on something quite unique. 

I have quite a lot of experience with all aspects of livestock production and I have seen many systems of producing pigs, but I hadn’t come across one quite as good as this, I couldn’t quite believe it when I saw it.

Robert is an absolute master. He’s taken on one of the most complicated pig breeds left in the country. I don’t know quite how he does it but somehow, through a lot of hard work and experimentation he has managed to adapt The Large Black to an acceptable modern day standard whilst still keeping its original values. On behalf of Bramfield Meats and your loyal following of retail customers, thank you for all your hard work. “ 

You can hear more about what Charlie has to say in the following Look East clip  which also features Norfolk Food Hero, Vanessa Scott.

Each year we serve Charlie’s ham on our walk  - needless to say it always goes down a storm – made from Scotts Field Pork we defy you to try a better one in this part of the world.

If you would like to source Scotts Field Pork meat, ham or bacon on a wholesale basis you can contact Charlie at Bramfield Meats on 01986 784222 or email him at charlie@bramfieldmeats.co.uk.