Howard is the owner of the rare breed meat company and his farm in Essex has produced the finest turkeys and geese since 1983; Howard hand picks the best possible birds from his flocks especially for Chadwick’s Butchers. Howard is a member of the Anglican Turkey Association, the Goose Producers Association  and the Traditional Farm Fresh Turkey association all of which demand a strict code of practice relating to welfare, feed quality and legislation. Farmers are monitored frequently by the organisations to ensure that they adhere to the very highest standards.

Howards turkeys won the prestigious ‘Best Turkey’ in the Annual Anglican Turkey Association show. We at Chadwick’s have visited the farm to ensure that the birds and animals reared achieve all the standards of traditional animal husbandry demanded by our customers.

Watch our website for our announcement of our tasting days in September, October & November when you will be able to order and taste just how excellently succulent and juicy the turkeys are.

The geese howard grows are free to wander around the orchards that surround the farm. Howard uses traditional animal husbandry methods and the feed used never contains artificial growth hormones or antibiotics. The geese are slow grown and left to their own social groups.

The gloucester old spot pigs are reared in their own social family groups and  are free to forage amongst the acorn trees. Howard produces a succulent pork that is traditional in flavour and excellent in tenderness and quality.

We have introduced a scheme where our loyal customers can collect storage tubs from us at Chadwick’s in order to store the meat they buy more hygienically and effectively.

How it works is you collect five stamps on your loyalty card from five visits and if you wish to sign up you are given a number of various storage tubs. When you shop at Chadwick’s you bring the storage tubs in-store with you and we wrap the meats in our grease proof paper and place them in the tub.

The tubs are washable and re-usable and will not only reduce our usage of plastics but it will also reduce your refuse collection needs.

We calculate that each household could save at least 1 bag of refuse a week by using the above process when shopping not just with us but with other local shops also.

That is a potential of a minimum 52 bags of rubbish a year for your household alone and if all of our customers joined the scheme that would be 52,000 – 75,000 bags of rubbish less a year our council would have to collect and dispose of, a potential 500 – 1000 tons of rubbish less to collect each year; so come on and join our scheme and help us help you save the planet and reduce the need for packaging.