OUR FARMERS
Meet the Farmers
Because we want you to be as passionate about our produce as we are, and because we have nothing to hide, we’d like you to tell you about a couple of the farmers who raise Three Dales meat:
The Walmsley Family
The Walmsley family farm around 380 acres between Wharfedale and Nidderdale outside Harrogate. Three generations of the family have farmed this land, which used to be part of the Ripley Castle Estate. Here they produce cattle, sheep and pigs. Local legend has it that the last wild boar in what was Knaresborough Forest was killed here.
The livestock are a strong mix of British and Continental breeds. The cattle and sheep are grass fed and the cattle are supplemented with homemade mixed feeds of cereals, silage and sugar beet in the winter months, whilst the sheep are fattened in the field. All the animals that are produced are bred on the farm.
