Our top tips for buying meat:
1. Eat less but better
2. Look at the label
3. Buy meat from your local butcher
4. Buy direct from local farms
5. Try to remember your ethics when eating out
Find out more on our tips for buying meat, eggs and dairy page.
List of local butchers and meat suppliers
Sussex Grazed Project – The Food Partnership is setting up collection/ delivery hubs for a meat share scheme along the coast between Shoreham and Eastbourne, offering lamb (hogget/ mutton) and beef that has been conservation grazing on local chalk grassland. More information and sign-up for updates here.
Archers
What: Long standing master butchers selling a range of organic meats and poultry.
Where: 128 Islingword Road, Hanover (Tel: 01273 603234)
Opening times: Currently under revision
Barfields Butchers
What: Traditional butchers selling free range naturally reared meat from Sussex and nearby counties.
Where: Buy from their Fiveways shop (11 Kings Parade, Ditchling Road) or arrange home delivery.
Opening times: Mon-Fri 8am-6pm, Sat 7.30am-5pm
Ben’s Butchers
What: Lewes-based butcher selling local free-range meat. A home delivery service is also available.
Where: 19c High Street, Lewes (Tel: 01273 480976)
Opening times: Mon-Sat 8.30am-5pm
BW Carr Farms
Bulstrode farm is a beef and arable farm in the village of Ovingdean, East Sussex. (Available through our Meat Share project) Or direct from the farm.
[email protected]
07785 272825
Bramptons
What: An award-winning butcher selling ‘naturally-reared and fed’ beef, lamb, pork and poultry, as well as homemade sausages and local cheeses.
Where: 114 St George’s Road, Kemptown
Opening times: Mon, Tues, Thurs & Fri 7.30am-5pm, Weds 7.30am-1pm, Sat 7am-1.30pm
Brighton Sausage Company
What: This shop in Brighton’s North Laine aims for local, natural ingredients and proper animal welfare for its huge range of sausages.
Where: 28a Gloucester Road, BN1 4AQ
Opening times: Mon-Fri 11am-7pm, Sat 10am-7pm, Sun 11am-5pm
Canhams
What: One of the firm favourites for meat eaters in Hove, selling free range meats and a range of pies, pasties and other baked goods.
Where: 48 Church Road, Hove (Tel: 01273 731021)
Opening times: Mon-Sat 6am-5.30pm
Clayton Organic Farm
What: Stocks a wide-range of certified organic meat and eggs from their farm shop Hen on the Gate (delivery available).
Where: Newick Lane, Mayfield
Opening times: Contact the shop for opening times (Tel: 01435 874852)
Garlic Wood
What: Garlic Wood is a family-owned business selling sustainably produced meat including 100% grass-fed beef, South Downs lamb and their own free-range pork.
Where: 50 High Street Steyning, West Sussex, BN44 3RD
Opening times: Tues 8am-1pm, Weds-Sat 8am-5pm
Jack’s Farm
A smallholding in Plumpton Green with a focus on high welfare, natural and sustainable farming. More information and mailing list contact [email protected] or 07923613721.
R C Secker
What: Traditional butchers selling local lamb, Scotch beef, free-range pork and a wide variety of sausages.
Where: 7 Richardson Road, Hove, 01273 731502
Opening times: Tues-Fri 6.30am-5pm, Sat 6.30am-3pm
Saddlescombe Farm
What: A traditional farm in the South Downs National Park that produces quality meat with a focus on high animal welfare and protecting the natural environment. (Available through our Sussex Grazed project)
Where: Saddlescombe Road, Brighton, BN45 7DB
Opening times: Check with Saddlescombe Farm directly for opening times
The Sussex Peasant
What: A mobile farm shop selling 100% pasture fed beef, pork, lamb, chicken and game, as well as locally caught fish, seasonal Sussex grown fruit and veg, locally produced cheese and a range of other local products.
Where: The Pepper Pot, Tower Road/where Queens Park Rd joins with Queens Park Terrace, Brighton
Opening times: Sat 10am-3pm
Tablehurst and Plaw Hatch Farm
What: Organic, biodynamic meat and dairy run as a farmers cooperative. Collection from the farm in Forest Row. Call to enquire 01342 823173.
Where: Tablehurst Farm, Forest Row, East Sussex and Plaw Hatch Farm, Sharpthorne, West Sussex
Opening times: Tablehurst Farm Shop Mon-Sat 9am-5pm; Plaw Hatch Farm Shop Mon-Sat 9am-6pm
Trenchmore Farm
Meat boxes, grains, selected vegetables and cider delivered around Sussex. Simply order on their online shop.
Westdene Butcher
What: Offering Sussex beef and lamb as well as biltong and other African flavours.
Where: 34 Eldred Avenue, Westdene, Brighton BN1 5EG
Opening times: Mon 9am-4pm, Tues-Sat 9am-6pm