What we rear and grow for the Farm Shop

What we rear and grow for the Farm Shop

100% pasture fed Ruby Reds

On Tregirls Farm we rear Ruby Reds, also known as Devons, using traditional pasture fed methods. Free to roam the fertile  pastures set on the cliff tops over looking the north Cornish coast, the beef that we sell in the Farm Shop butchery is rightly applauded for its incredible flavour.

Traditionally reared

Our Suffolk-Mule-Charollais cross  lamb can be found in the lush green fields of Crugmeer and Trethillick Farms, producing wonderfuuly flavoured meat. Our wide range of lamb joints and choice cuts are worthy of a celebratory meal, sunday roast or barbecue alike.

Free range pork

All our Tamworth and Welsh White pigs are completely free range and are never reared or finished indoors. This helps us produce the most incredible pork. You really can taste the difference compared to intensively reared pork. Whether it's a rolled shoulder of pork with crackling or some of our famous 'Padstow Porkers' the quality of our pork, through the high welfare standards we set, speak for themselves.

Grown naturally

Matt has been growing vegetables and salad leaves for well over two decades. Everything is grown without pesticides in the surrounding fields of Trethillick and when in full swing are picked by hand daily to be sold in the Farm Shop. Matt's incredible veg and salad leaves can be bought alongside our wide range of fruit and veg that, where possible, is sourced locally.

What we rear and grow for the Farm Shop

  • Pasture fed Ruby Reds

    On Tregirls Farm we rear Ruby Reds, also known as Devons, using traditional pasture fed methods. Free to roam the fertile  pastures set on the cliff tops over looking the north Cornish coast, the beef that we sell in the Farm Shop butchery is rightly applauded for its incredible flavour.

    Pasture fed Ruby Reds
  • Traditionally reared lamb

    Our Suffolk-Mule-Charollais cross  lamb can be found in the lush green fields of Crugmeer and Trethillick Farms, producing wonderfuuly flavoured meat. Our wide range of lamb joints and choice cuts are worthy of a celebratory meal, sunday roast or barbecue alike. 

    Traditionally reared lamb
  • Free range pork

    All our Tamworth and Welsh White pigs are completely free range and are never reared or finished indoors. This helps us produce the most incredible pork. You really can taste the difference compared to intensively reared pork. Whether it's a rolled shoulder of pork with crackling or some of our famous 'Padstow Porkers' the quality of our pork, through the high welfare standards we set, speak for themselves.

    Free range pork
  • Farm grown veg

    Matt has been growing vegetables and salad leaves for well over two decades. Everything is grown without pesticides in the surrounding fields of Trethillick and when in full swing are picked by hand daily to be sold in the Farm Shop. Matt's incredible veg and salad leaves can be bought alongside our wide range of fruit and veg that, where possible, is sourced locally.

    Farm grown veg

We are proud of how we farm.

Hopefully, you’ll have read elsewhere on this website about Tregirls Farm and our ethos.


This extends to all our livestock being free range, pasture fed and nurtured with the highest levels of animal husbandry and welfare.


If you stomp the coast path at the very edges of the land we farm, where it meets the sea, you’ll be walking amongst our herd of Ruby Reds and our Suffolk-Mule ewes.


We grow and pick seasonally in the well-stocked gardens and fields dotted about the farm, and we feel the proximity to the North Cornish coast and the quality of our soil brings extra flavour to our crops.


And we absolutely know all that care and attention shows in the quality of the meat and the fresh produce we sell in the farm shop.

Ruby Red bullock grazing the cliff tops near Padstow

Why is grass fed important?

Biodiverse pastures, such as the ones that make up an integral part of Tregirls Farm, are home to many different coastal herbs, flowers, clover and grasses that our Ruby Reds roam and graze freely upon.



Because our cattle graze on the cliff-top pasture only, they have naturally higher levels of vitamins A and E and usually double the levels of beta-carotene and selenium compared to grain fed cattle.



Studies have shown that grass fed cattle have an overall lower fat and saturated fat content than cattle raised and finished on grain and they also have higher levels of long chain Omega 3, which can protect against heart disease and plays a key role in brain function in humans.



Additional benefits come in the form of being higher in the B vitamins thiamin and riboflavin, minerals calcium, magnesium and potassium, conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) - a potential cancer fighter - and vaccenic acid (which is transformed into CLA)



Even finishing cattle on grain reverses the benefits of a lifetime at pasture which is why our Ruby Reds are always grazing the cliff-top pastures overlooking the breathtaking Atlantic ocean.



In addition research suggests that well maintained grasslands can act as a carbon sink which in turn is beneficial to the climate.