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Free Range & Organic Free Range

For the last five years the firm has worked closely with Charles Nash of Woodbridge in a joint venture to produce the “Sutton Hoo” Free Range chicken and more recently, the “Sutton Hoo” Organic Free Range chicken, for those consumers looking for an alternative to the more intensively reared bird. The difference between the Free Range and the Organic Free Range is principally the birds’ diet. “Sutton Hoo” Organic Free Range chickens eat organically grown food and live on organically registered grassland. (Organic Certification is with the Organic Food Federation).The birds, derived from a traditional breed of chicken, live in small groups in naturally lit and ventilated mobile houses. They range freely over acres of pasture adjacent to the Anglo-Saxon burial site of Sutton Hoo, hence the name. Their diet, mainly wheat, does not contain antibiotics, growth promoters or drugs of any kind. These birds taste like chicken! Their lifestyle, diet and a naturally slower growing, old fashioned bird, combine to give the meat a wonderful texture and delicious full flavour.

 

Anybody wishing to visit Charles Nash and see the birds roaming in their natural habitat are very welcome to make a personal appointment with him on 01394 386797.

St.George's - Freedom Food

The latest addition is the St George's brand which is dedicated to chicken produced to the highest welfare standards as set down by the RSPCA's Freedon Food scheme. The St. George's brand is for consumers with the interest of animal welfare at heart and a preference for antibiotic free produce.

The Freedom Food birds are reared in smaller flock sizes by individual farmers who are passionate about the welfare of their animals. The birds not only have far more space available to them than other more intensively reared birds but also enjoy enriched conditions such as perching on straw bales and natural periods of darkness. The key to authenticity is the serialisation number on each label which allows full traceability from 'Farm to Table'.