Today, Lovaton Farm’s free range pork, lamb and Dexter beef is available by mail order, directly from the farm and in selected local shops in the Okehampton area.

Lovaton is a family-run farm with an in-house butchery, ensuring high quality and complete traceability from our fields to your fork.

When Jane Barber took over the farm from her father in 1999, it was her intention to renovate the farmhouse to start a B&B business. Jane’s first purchase was a Gloucester Old Spot named Penny to clear the paddock of brambles and weeds. However, Penny caught the roving eye of Rufus the boar and in less than 12 months they produced no fewer than 42 piglets.

Here at Lovaton Farm we know that our meat is delicious, good value and good for the environment. But you don't have to take our word for it! Year after year we've won awards from the prestigious 'Taste of the West' competition and in 2011 we've also been awarded Gold Product Awards for our Sirloin Steak and our Smoked Bacon in the 2011 Devon Tourism Awards.

The Devon Tourism Awards recognize the very best of produce from Devon and our steak and bacon were praised for the flavour and also for the fact that they are available from a wide range of local shops in our area. This year at Taste of the West we received an award for each of the seven products entered.

We don't like to blow our own trumpet, but for full details of our awards and feedback from our satisfied customers, please visit our Awards and Comments Page.

Pork

Our Pork is produced from the finest of traditional rare-breed pigs including the Gloucester Old Spot, Saddleback and Welsh pigs, the Gloucester Old Spot being the original 'orchard pig'.

All our pigs are genuinely free-range and are reared slowly to maturity. The pigs spend their whole lives roaming freely in open paddocks during the spring, summer and autumn with cosy straw-bedded sheds in winter.

This stress-free rearing results in delicious, succulent and mouth-watering pork with proper 'crackling'. Pork is available in great value meat boxes or cut to order into joints, chops, bacon, gammon hams, pork burgers and award winning sausages and meatballs. (Taste of the West Silver 2008). We can also supply half-pig orders.

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Beef

Our home-bred Dexter and Dexter cross Devon cattle graze all spring, summer and autumn on land under 'Countryside Stewardship', a scheme to promote wildlife friendly farming. In the winter the cattle are supplemented with home-grown feeds allowing them to be reared in a stress-free traditional manner.

The Dexter is the smallest of the native British breeds with a wonderfully distinctive texture and flavour. We cross this with the Devon Ruby Red breed which produces the same rich Dexter taste and has subsequently won us Gold and Silver awards in the annual 'Taste of the West' competition.

All the beef is hung for three to four weeks to enhance the flavour and tenderness. It is then cut and vacuum packed ready to use or freeze, making it ideal for modern busy families. Beef is available in great value meat boxes or cut to order into all types of joints, succulent steaks, lean mince, burgers and sausages.

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Lamb, Hogget and Mutton

Our Lamb is sourced from our native breeds which are lambed outside in the spring sunshine. Reared on clover rich pasture overlooking Dartmoor, the meat is tender and full of flavour.

In addition to Lamb, we also supply older animals as Hogget and Mutton. This meat has even more flavour and is a traditional good-value meat which is making a welcome comeback.

The Lamb, Hogget and Mutton are all available as joints, chops, steaks, mince and sausages. For the best value try our half or whole lamb boxes.

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