Ballycastle Farm Shop

Home Grown, Hand Reared Beef, Lamb and Pork.

Our farm shop is located in picturesque Glenshesk, one of the nine Glens of Antrim just outside Ballycastle. All of our beef, lamb and pork is born and reared in Glenshesk. Our animals are bred for their leanness and quality and we only select the finest animals for the farm shop. We endeavour where possible to use natural fertilizers and our animal's diet is enhanced with clover rich grass and home produced cereals.

Our outdoor reared pork is produced on the farm from our gloucester old spot, tamworth and saddleback breeds. Our pigs are not intensively farmed and the combination of a natural environment and slow growth produces a flavour and texture which commercial indoor pork cannot achieve. Our bacon, gammon and hams are traditionally dry cured. No salt or water is injected so no shrinkage occurs and there is no salty after taste.

We follow the old tradition of hanging or 'dry-aging' our prime cuts of beef for twenty eight days, all other beef cuts for fourteen days. We mature our lambs for twelve days and our pork for seven to fourteen days. We believe this maturing process combined with our tailor made diet guarantees maximum tenderness and depth of flavour.