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Pipers & Co: What is it?
Pipers & Co bring food from small-scale farmers and producers direct to your door.
They are on a mission to connect their customers with food that’s nourishing for humans, farmed in tune with natural rhythms for the animals, and restores life to the land.
When food is produced in this way, the soil becomes rich in natural nutrients and there is less reliance on chemicals, which means it’s healthier to eat. Working with small-scale farmers has other benefits, too: when food is produced and processed locally, value stays in the local economy, supporting abattoirs, dairies, pickers, packers, and a network of craftspeople who underpin a thriving food culture.
“The key thing is we are not a supermarket, we are a living, breathing tapestry of farms. There is necessary variation in how food is produced, but always with environmental, community and taste benefits at the forefront,” says founder Will Greig.
Greig set up Pipers & Co to continue his family legacy of working to revolutionise food by building a system that prioritises community, resilience and integrity.
“It’s also about joy,” he adds. “The joy of knowing where your food comes from, who grew it, what it supports and, of course, that it will taste incredible.”
Pipers & Co best-sellers:
Slow Grown Whole Chicken
From £13.00
Pasture Fed Beef Picanha
From £30.75
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Pipers & Co: How sustainable is it?
Pipers & Co are explicit in their mission and insist every decision they make “has the future health of humanity and the planet in mind”.
They rear their own cattle on their farm in Cullompton as well as work with a number of farms rearing beef cows in the Southwest. All cows live outside for most – if not all – of the year and are exclusively grass fed.
Their pork comes from native breeds and native cross, such as Saddleback and Saddleback Cross as well as Tamworth and Tamworth Cross. Importantly, all are properly and totally free range. They say: “The certification schemes for pigs hasn’t yet caught up to explain this” (which we at Live Frankly agree with).
Chicken is free range or organic, with all having access to pasture to graze and are killed on farm.
They also offer wild venison and game.
Pipers & Co work with farms to reduce waste in the farming system, such as using pigs and chickens in rotations. They also maximise carcass utilisation by freezing the meat or making products such as stocks and fats with any bi-products to minimise waste.
When it comes to packaging, the wool can composted, the cardboard can be composted or recycled, the glass can be recycled. Plastics should all be recyclable too, either curbside or by taking it to soft-plastic collection sites.
All staff are paid a living wage.
Pipers & Co: Where can I buy it?
Head over to the Pipers.co website.
Main image: Bea Lubas
