Rooting for Real Farms features high profile chefs and the high welfare farmers who provide their pork. Each video shows a famous chef preparing a delicious pork dish while describing the significant difference in taste and texture between high welfare and factory produced pork. The chefs explain why they would only ever serve high welfare meat to their customers who are increasingly concerned about cruel and unhealthy practices in factory pig farming.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
“I want to eat pork from pigs that have been reared outdoors, free to enjoy the rooting, snuffling and social interaction that are so essential to them. The alternative is simply not acceptable. Choosing free-range or organic pork is a no-brainer for me because of the welfare issues alone – but I can assure you it tastes far better too!”
Rooting for Real Farms: Series 2
Episode 1: Gill Meller & Harry Boglione
Chef, food writer, author, food stylist, and cookery teacher Gill Meller lives and works near the small fishing town… Read More
Episode 2: Cyrus Todiwala & Giles Eustice
Cyrus Todiwala OBE, celebrity TV chef and proprietor of Cafe Spice Namaste, stars in the second episode of our new… Read More
Episode 3: Clodagh McKenna & Helen Wade
After a dire experience visiting a factory pig farm in Italy, Clodagh McKenna decided to only cook with high welfare meat… Read More
Episode 4: Will Devlin & Tom Cunningham
Will Devlin, holder of a Green Michelin Star for his exceptional commitment to sustainability, runs The Small Holding… Read More
Episode 5: Liz Earle & Rob Simonds
Liz Earle MBE, founding farming member of Pasture for Life and an ambassador for Love British Food says, “There’s so… Read More
Episode 6: Romy Gill and James Hull
Top chef Romy Gill was a judge on Master Chef so knows the benefits of cooking with high welfare pork… Read More
Episode 7: Julius Roberts
Julius Roberts, social media celebrity, chef, farmer and gardener, stars in the latest video in our Rooting for Real Farms‘… Read More
Episode 8: James Strawbridge & Jemima Marks
James Strawbridge loves being outdoors and active, cooking, foraging, gig-rowing, painting and… Read More
Episode 9: Olia Hercules & Annie Landless
Olia grew up in a large bustling household filled with her numerous extended family including… Read More
Episode 10: Nic Day and Alastair Butler
Nic Day, formerly Executive Chef at Sixes Cricket Club Restaurant in Fitzrovia, believes that the taste… Read More
Episode 11: Darren Broom and Andrew & Sarah Parry Norton
Darren’s seventeen-year career as a chef includes spells with Michael Caines, Marco Pierre White… Read More
Episode 12: Paul Askew & Luke Hasell
Since 2007, Luke Hasell has continued his family’s 100 years of farming, raising pigs and cattle to organic standards… Read More
Rooting for Real Farms: Series 1
Episode 1: Damian Clisby & Harry Boglione
Harry Boglione is a passionate advocate of Slow Food and sustainable living and owner of Haye Farm Devon… Read More
Episode 2: Mark Hix & Peter Gott
Peter Gott started producing wild boar pig meat in 1993, when his brother gave him four wild boar gilts… Read More
Episode 3: Jemima Jones & Lucy Carr-Ellison
Jemima Jones and husband Ben Goldsmith keep a herd of Tamworth pigs on their farm in Somerset… Read More
Episode 4: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall & Peter Greig
Peter Greig started Pipers Farm in Devon over 20 years ago, with the goal to produce healthy meat … Read More
Episode 5: Amelia Freer & Helen Browning
Helen Browning took over her father’s 1,350 acre Wiltshire farm in 1986 and turned it organic… Read More
Episode 6: James Golding & Alan Bartlett
Alan Bartlett is a third generation master butcher at T Bartlett and Sons, New Milton, Hampshire… Read More
Episode 7: Sam Leach & Mary Holbrook
Mary Holbrook is a former museum curator turned farmer based near Timsbury, Somerset… Read More
Episode 8: Arthur Potts Dawson & Simon Price
Simon Price has always been passionate about the outdoors, starting to work for a farm part time while finishing school… Read More
Episode 9: Adam Byatt & Rob Simonds
Rob Simonds is a Norfolk based livestock farmer from a family of commercial pig farmers… Read More
Episode 10: James Knappett & Fred Price
Fred Price is the manager of Gothelney Farm in Somerset, where he uses his passion for innovation to combine historical… Read More
Episode 11: Shaun Searley & Richard Vaughan
Richard Vaughan and his wife Rosamund are the current owners of Huntsham Farm which has been in the family… Read More