world class food for locals
At Heritage Farms Tasmania, we have a passion for producing some of the world’s best beef and pork.
Our slow-grown heritage breed cows and pigs have been carefully selected for their natural ability to marble, producing both intramuscular and external fats that lock in flavour and juiciness, and result in some of the best tasting meat on the market.
We have also carefully chosen diets that complement and enhance these natural benefits.
Our Saddleback pigs enjoy a diet rich in whey protein rather than grains and commercial feeds. This is a method that the Italians have been using for centuries to produce their world-famous Parma hams and prosciuttos. They are also finished on succulent walnuts and cherries from local growers.
Our Belted Galloway cows get the best of both worlds – enjoying a variety of regeneratively grown pastures and forages, plus a range of tasty co-product treats from some of Tasmania’s finest food and beverage producers. This includes spent grain and pot ale from the distillation of Tasmania’s finest whiskies and gins, grape vines and grape mark from the production of our world-class cool climate wines, and a huge selection of fruits and vegetables from our best growers.
But the benefits go far beyond superior taste and meat quality. Our little farm is also having a huge impact on reducing food waste by taking on the co-products of commercial food and beverage production – things that would otherwise end up in landfill.
Food waste is by no means a small problem. Australian households waste around 7.6 million tonnes of food each year. Add in all of the food manufacturing, restaurant, business and commercial food waste and that figure quickly sky-rockets!
Food waste costs the Australian economy around $40 billion a year, contributes around 3% of Australia’s annual greenhouse gas emissions, uses around 2,600 gigalitres of water and covers more than 25 million hectares of land.
When we saw those figures, we were determined to do what we could to reduce that figure.
Heritage Farms Tasmania may be just one small farm in one of Australia’s smallest states, but by repurposing and utilising as much co-product and ‘food waste’ as we can, we have diverted over 4 million kilograms of waste from landfill in just 4 years!
And it has had a profoundly positive impact on the quality of our meat – so a win-win all around.
To find out some of the other things we are passionate about, check out our story on our About page.
find out how to:
- Grow, raise, cook and preserve your own food
- Forage, fish and hunt the wild
- Pursue true sustainability
- Get back to nature and reconnect with the land
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