Did you know that the mince meat you buy from supermarkets and the burgers, bolognese or any mince beef based dish you eat in most commercial  settings – fast food, pubs etc – could easily be made from the meat of up to 400 different cows. 400!! So if you’ve ever wondered why companies recommend that such meat is not served pink, now you know.

We make our burgers from a single cut of beef from one cow, as a consequence our burgers can be served pink and are therefore packed full of flavour and you know they are free of any nasty additives and preservatives.

The scandal of the British fishing industry!

Please think about this for a minute. We were talking to a fisherman last week about the decline of the British fishing industry and we learnt a startling fact. This man (we’re not going to name him) is a third generation fisherman in East Anglia. He spends the winter long lining for herring -  a hard and dangerous job, but what happens when back at the quay. At the morning auction he receives on average 38 pence per KILO for his herring. 38 Pence from the fish wholesalers on the dockside.

Within a matter of hours (minutes in some cases) those same fish are on sale at the market for £5.80 per kilo. £5.80!!! That’s 1526% mark up for doing little more than driving the fish to the customer market.

We also heard of the furry of many wholesalers when the quay price is pushed up.

So the next time you hear or read about Britain’s fishermen having a hard time, think on, would you do such a hard and dangerous job for pennys? Because that’s what they get.

Maybe worth thinking about when you’re tucking into your kippers.

AAAA

Break out the barbeque

But what to put on it? A dodgy burger from the supermarket frozen aisle? Or a guaranteed 100% beef burger from Farm, Park & Wild. YOU WILL TASTE THE DIFFERENCE – we promise.

Burgers
100% beef or susage meat burgers with ABSOLUTLEY NO added bran or other ‘packing’. this means they cost slightly more but we promise they are the best burger you’ll ever taste – chose from
100% beef burgers
Sausage meat burgers
Curry beef burgers

Steaks
Fillet, Sirloin or Rump? all hung on the bone in our chiller unit at the FPW HQ kitchen and sourced from one of our three North Norfolk beef farmers

Chicken fillets or drumsticks
100% free range, not just RSPCA standard, but real free range chicken from Aldbourgh in Norfolk

To order your BBQ goodies from the
Farm, Park & Wild Kitchen either

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We deliver FREE on all orders over £15.00 anywhere in North Norfolk and Norwich. Alternatively orders can be picked up at the kitchen (address below). We make all our food to order so please order in advance and allow 24-hours for delivery and or pick up.

Farm, Park & Wild Kitchen
1 Douglas Bader Close
North Walsham
NR28 0TZ

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Locally sourced ingredients turned into great food at the FPW HQ Kitchen

In February 2010 we started work on our Farm, Park & Wild  kitchen so we can turn our locally sourced meat, fish and vegetables in to fabulous dishes for our customers. Here are just some of the highlights, a full list can be found on the right.

Cromer Crab Bisque
A rich and incredibly tasty soup full of the flavours of the sea

Pasta Sauce
Creamy mushroom with basil – (V)
Chicken, Leek & Pancetta
Chicken & Mushroom
Tomato & Herb – (V)
Crab Mornay

Pate
Chicken liver and belly pork pate
Lobster pate
Smoked Mackeral pate

Potted Shrimps

Mr Kew’s Famous Seafood Chouder
A taste sensation

Burgers – Ideal for a summer BBQ
100% beef or susage meat burgers with ABSOLUTLEY NO added bran or other ‘packing’. this means they cost slightly more but we promise they are the best burger you’ll ever taste – chose from
100% beef burgers
Sausage meat burgers
Curry beef burgers

Mr Kew’s Pies
Click here for a full list

To order your goodies from the Farm, Park & Wild Kitchen either

Call us on 0844 846 2329

Order securely on this page using our payment partner
Sage Pay

Or email chef@farmparkwild.co.uk
Stating your order, address, telephone number & date of delivery or collection

We deliver FREE on all orders over £15.00 anywhere in North Norfolk and Norwich. Alternatively orders can be picked up at the kitchen (address below). We make all our food to order so please order in advance and allow 24-hours for delivery and or pick up.

Farm, Park & Wild Kitchen
1 Douglas Bader Close
North Walsham
NR28 0TZ

Click here for location map of the kitchen 

6 quality steak cuts plus a half fore rib on the bone AND 3 sauces from the Farm, Park & Wild kitchen

Sheer indulgence for meat lovers. As well as our fabulous steak selection and the three amazing sauces made by Mr Kew, this meat box contains a delicious half fore rib of beef, on the bone for greater flavour. Hung for at least two weeks in our own refrigerated facility on-site at Farm, Park & Wild HQ. Whatsmore you’ll know that your steaks and rib have been sourced from one of only three hand-picked North Norfolk Beef farmers – Ed Morgan-Evans, DJ & JM Blaxell or Nigel Dixon – and you WILL taste the difference.

The selection contains

2 x North Norfolk Fillet Steaks – (approx 180g / 6oz)
2 x North Norfolk Sirloin Steaks (approx 290g / 10oz) 
2 x North Norfolk Rump Steaks (approx 250g / 8oz)
1 x Half Fore Rib (two ribs approx 3.5kg)
1 x Mr Kew’s Peppercorn Sauce
1 x Mr Kew’s Huntsmans Sauce
1 x Mr Kew’s Red Wine Sauce

We deliver all meat boxes FREE anywhere in North Norfolk, Norwich & South West London (more areas to come soon but please call and ask). Alternatively orders can be picked up at the kitchen at address below.

 To order your steak & fore rib selection either

Call us on 0844 846 2329

Order securely on this page using our payment partner
Sage Pay

Or email chef@farmparkwild.co.uk
Stating your order, address, telephone number & date of delivery or collection 

Farm, Park & Wild Kitchen
1 Douglas Bader Close
Lyngate Ind’ Estate
North Walsham
NR28 0TZ

Click here for location map

If you have any questions whatsoever please call 0844 846 2329

12 quality steak cuts plus a fore rib on the bone AND 4 sauces from the Farm, Park & Wild kitchen

We’re getting serious now, make sure you’ve got room in the fridge for this amazing meat box and a family with a great appetite. Our large steak selection is joined by four sauce servings made by Mr Kew, and a fabulous  fore rib of beef, on the bone to give that great flavour. Hung for at least two weeks in our own refrigerated facility on-site at Farm, Park & Wild HQ. Whatsmore you’ll know that your steaks and rib have been sourced from one of only three hand-picked North Norfolk Beef farmers – Ed Morgan-Evans, DJ & JM Blaxell or Nigel Dixon – and you WILL taste the difference.

The selection contains

4 x Fillet steaks (approx 180g / 6oz)
4 x Sirloin steaks (approx 290g / 10oz)
4 x Rump steaks (approx 250g / 8oz)
1 x whole Fore Rib (four ribs approx 7kg)
2 x Mr Kew’s Peppercorn sauce
2 x Mr Kew’s Huntsman’s sauce

We deliver all meat boxes FREE anywhere in North Norfolk, Norwich & South West London (more areas to come soon but please call and ask). Alternatively orders can be picked up at the kitchen at address below.

 To order your large steak & fore rib steak selection either

Call us on 0844 846 2329

Order securely on this page using our payment partner
Sage Pay

Or email chef@farmparkwild.co.uk
Stating your order, address, telephone number & date of delivery or collection 

Farm, Park & Wild Kitchen
1 Douglas Bader Close
Lyngate Ind’ Estate
North Walsham
NR28 0TZ

Click here for location map

If you have any questions whatsoever please call 0844 846 2329

12 quality steak cuts plus a fore rib on the bone, a Chateaubriand AND 5 sauces from the Farm, Park & Wild kitchen

This is the big one! Clear out the fridge before taking delivery of this meat box containing  our large North Norfolk Steak Selection & Fore Rib of beef, a Chateaubriand and five sauce servings made by Mr Kew. Like all out beef your steaks, rib and Chateaubriand will have been hung for at least two weeks in our own refrigerated facility on-site at Farm, Park & Wild HQ. Whatsmore you’ll know that your steaks and rib have been sourced from one of only three hand-picked North Norfolk Beef farmers – Ed Morgan-Evans, DJ & JM Blaxell or Nigel Dixon – and you WILL taste the difference.

The selection contains

4 x Fillet steaks (approx 180g / 6oz)
4 x Sirloin steaks (approx 290g / 10oz)
4 x Rump steaks (approx 250g / 8oz)
1 x Whole Fore Rib (four ribs approx 7kg)
1 x Chateaubriand (approx 750g / 26oz)
2 x Mr Kew’s Peppercorn sauce
3 x Mr Kew’s Béarnaise sauce

We deliver all meat boxes FREE anywhere in North Norfolk, Norwich & South West London (more areas to come soon but please call and ask). Alternatively orders can be picked up at the kitchen at address below.

 To order the Big One either

Call us on 0844 846 2329

Order securely on this page using our payment partner
Sage Pay

Or email chef@farmparkwild.co.uk
Stating your order, address, telephone number & date of delivery or collection 

Farm, Park & Wild Kitchen
1 Douglas Bader Close
Lyngate Ind’ Estate
North Walsham
NR28 0TZ

Click here for location map

If you have any questions whatsoever please call 0844 846 2329

Consider if you will the much misunderstood practice of commercial food labelling. See if you can identify with this scenario. You’ve picked up a foodstuff in the supermarket, checked out the label and seen the words ‘Produced in the UK’ bought whatever it was and felt jolly pleased with yourself. I know I have.

However, your British pride might be slightly dented after I impart the following key piece of information.

Whatever it was you bought can legally claim to be made in this country as long as the ‘last significant change’ to that item happen on our shores.

So perhaps you bought sausages or chicken in breadcrumbs, or a ready meal with a picture of a farmer on the front.

Those sausages could well be made from cheap imported pork as long as they were turned into sausages here.

That chicken could be from lord only knows where, perhaps intensive poultry sheds in Brazil or Thailand (where an increasing amount of our imported chicken comes from) but as long as it was crumbed and packed here its ‘Produced in the UK’ status is totally legitimate – in the eyes of the law anyway.

As for that ready meal. EVERYTHING contained within could be from anywhere in the world as long as it’s ‘readiness’ was done here it’s OK to claim ‘Produced in the UK’

My Favourite however is ‘Wiltshire Cured Bacon’. That’s got to be bacon from Wiltshire right? WRONG. Wiltshire refers to the method of curing, not the lovely county. Cheap imported meat is being passed off as quality UK produce everywhere you look. Please don’t fall for it.

Farm, Park & Wild’s meat boxes, game boxes and seasonal ingredients are most definitely from the UK. Provenance is at the heart of everything we do and you will taste the difference.

Eat well and check the label, but even then think twice.

Lets start with Jimmys Food Factory. Jimmy Doherty investigates what really goes into our supermarket food by setting up his own food factory to recreate processed ‘food’. This week saw Jimmy having a stab at square sandwich ham. You know the stuff ,that rather whiffy pre-pack nastiness masquerading as a pork product. Truth is it is made from pork, well mechanically reclaimed pork anyway with lots and lots of added water, flavouring and some lovely colouring. mmmmmmm. NOT!

Next up is an amazing TV series by Alex Riley, Britain’s Really Disgusting Food. Alex uncovers the nightmares of the British food industry. It’s a real eye opener. Like Jimmy’s programme the series investigates the difference between what’s on the label and what you are really eating.

On to better fare. We love Valentine Warner and his programme What To Eat Now. If like us you like eating seasonally and using sustainable ingredients then this is the show for you. Valentine clearly cares and is passionate about what he does and what he eats.

Farm, Park & Wild is committed to helping customers eating the Valentine way. We have some real issues with processed food, but by eating seasonally and really thinking about what we are eating we can address a whole host of issues – general health, sustainability and climate change for starters.

Farm, Park & Wild’s unique seasonal dinner party menu, our meat boxes, game & seafood boxes will help you on your way.

Eat well.

Apparently there is going to be a shortage of quality Christmas turkeys this year. Delve a little deeper into the story and we find that the source is Kelly’s Turkeys. Kelly’s are undoubtedly fabulous farmers and they have built an amazing business, however their Christmas turkeys are rather expensive - mmmmmmmm, wonder why this story hit the headlines in a recessionary year?

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Farm, Park & Wild’s TurkeyCam allows you too see our Christmas Turkeys live from the farm (during the hours of daylight anyway, the budget couldn’t run to infa-red technology). Please have a look and you can be confident in the provenance of your Christmas Turkey.