The Gannets were recently down on the Wales/England border doing some work. To treat ourselves at the end of the week we decided to find a good farm shop to take a haul back to London with us. One clever Gannet remembered that Trealy Farm Charcuterie was located in Monmouthshire (where we were working), but we were disappointed to find out they didn’t have a any kind of retail shop. Another, even cleverer Gannet got on the phone and hunted down the Trealy Farm office, and charmed them into letting us visit their distribution office near Usk…. and so off we set.
Trealy Farm is an artisan business using traditional methods of curing, smoking and air-drying, along with some modern innovations and technology, to produce wonderful meaty goodness which is rarely produced in the UK. Delicious salamis, chorizos, air-dried and hot-cured products made with lamb, pork, beef, wild boar, venison and rabbit. All of their products are produced from traditional breed, free-range animals sourced from their own farm or other select local farms.
We found owner James Swift charming and agreeable, and happy to discuss his work as well as ours! (Apparently he was a music critic before he was a charcuterist.) (Which isn’t a word, btw, but should be.)
The photo above is only part of The Gannet’s total haul, which included lots of salami (fennel, wild boar, veal & lemon, sobrasada, pepperoni, chorizo), boudin noir, Bath chaps, beef pastrami, air-dried ham, beef and pork, and cured sausages (toulouse, fennel and chorizo).
Some of the mouth-watering books found on the Trealy Farm bookshelf, alongside about a dozen top awards!
Apparently Trealy Farm don’t have an outlet in London and rarely get to any of the markets, though they have plans to try out Broadway Market in Hackney soon. We seriously considered whether we should give up our weekends to selling sausages for them. Maybe just give up everything else and sell sausages for a living. As we joked with James.. you can’t download a salami!
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