Our farm-reared beef and lamb is available by order only at various times throughout the year. JC Agriculture Limited is a family run business that features a small scale, mixed farm; complimenting this we sell hay and straw and have provided agricultural contracting and grounds maintenance services for over 25 years & registered as a Limited Company in 2012. Jon’s family is mainly involved in farming and grocery retail, both the Chamberlin and Robarts sides of the family having had stores in the parish of Kings Walden in the past. The Taylor and Tooley side of the family farmed in this Parish & the Chamberlin farming side of the family reside in Lincolnshire. My speciality is food production & I provide part time technical consultancy services in the food industry in addition to the day to day farm duties. After meeting at Agricultural college, we were able to begin farming in Breachwood Green in 2004 using
sheep to improve the land that had been set aside as uneconomic to farm. In 2015 we moved our farming
activities from Breachwood Green to Chiltern Hall. This allowed us to rear cattle, keep pigs and grow arable
crops. Chiltern Hall is located on Dane Street, just outside Breachwood Green, some of you will know the
location as a prime spot for watching aeroplanes as the farm is adjacent to Luton Airport Runway. In November 2019 we launched Chiltern Hall Produce, and are now proud to be supplying quality meats and fresh free-range eggs. Farming in a traditional way, having animals and crops on a small scale, we aim for quality instead of quantity. We minimise the use of artificial fertilisers, chemicals & medications and aim to source our feedstuffs and materials locally where possible. We feed our animals almost entirely with crops produced on the farm & brewers’ grains from a local brewery (a by-product of brewing) which are enjoyed by all the animals. We also sell some of the crops such as hay, straw, haylage & barley. We have a large free-range flock of Lohmann Brown chickens that lay lovely rich eggs. These are available from our honesty collection point outside 21 The Heath, Breachwood Green. £1.50 per half dozen. We also offer a weekly delivery service to the local villages. We focus on the Southdown breed of sheep which is a British breed originally from the English Downland; they are known for a docile nature and for being good mothers producing high quality lean lamb with wonderful flavour. We have a registered pedigree flock ‘Breachwood Green Southdowns’. Our lambs are born between March & May, normally indoors but the lambs are soon out on the spring grass (weather depending). We keep some female lambs every year to improve our breeding stock & also to sell to other breeders. We also fatten some animals for meat as lamb and the remaining as ‘Hogget’ (a juvenile sheep) which has an increased flavour. Our cattle are predominantly the Dexter breed which is a small cattle breed that originated from Ireland but have been in the UK since 1882 & were almost lost several decades ago. We cross the Dexter’s with our Miniature Hereford bull called Chester. Once weaned we sell the female calves on for breeding and the boys remain with us. This cross of breeds allows us to produce an excellent marbled meat that tastes as beef used to taste! We source British breeds of pig from local farms. Once weaned in the Spring they join us for the Summer & Autumn on the farm. We produce traditional & flavoured sausages & pork roasting joints using the quality lean meat. We transport our own animals to a small local slaughterhouse & butcher who packs the meats to our requirements. Produced & processed locally this minimises food miles and freezing quickly seals in the quality & enables us to supply all year round. Fresh meat is also available at various times of the year and can be pre booked. All meat is fully labelled and stored in our recently inspected storage facility which has a hygiene rating of 5. Price list & availability can be obtained by contacting Victoria on 07989 524885 or via email [email protected].
