Hey, we’re Sam and Elliot Day, two food obsessed brothers who flew the farm nest in Devon and set up FieldGoods. The dream? To make amazing food from carefully-sourced, free range, British suppliers, sent from our kitchen to your table.
With a B-Corp certification and 25 Great Taste Awards , this truly is food to feel good.
Good question, because to call a spade a spade, there are quite a few businesses claiming to be sustainable or to "source the finest ingredients".
We're not perfect, but we're trying to be. From working some of the country's most exciting producers including WildFarmed, Chalkstream Trout and Farm Wilder, to generating our own electricity and closing our waste cycles, we're doing everything we can right now, and we’re constantly looking for ways to do better.
As for as the food itself, well, we're confident that's almost perfect, but you can be the judge of that.
For us it’s all important and we’ll never sacrifice taste, quality, or the environment.
Wood pulp trays with a thin polymer layer (for waterproofness) make all of our trays 100% recyclable! Simply rinse the inside of the tray, peel away the liner and recycle away! The liner can be recycled with squishy plastics, while the tray can be recycled with papers.
The branded tray sleeve is 100% recyclable. All the ink and glue we use are vegetable and water-based products, so they dissolve straight back into nature, where they came from. Not only that but they are manufactured inline with the Carbon Lands Trust meaning they are totally carbon balanced.
Unfortunately a compostable oven proof film doesn’t exist... yet. We are in touch with many different suppliers who are working hard to create such a product. As soon as it launches we are at the front of the queue. Until then, please wash the film and put it into your recycling.
Dexter to Highland, Belted Galloways to Devon's. We only use native breed cattle, reared on grass in Yorkshire. These smaller animals, grow slower on their grass diet, developing a wonderful deep flavour and beautiful marbling.
By farming in a traditional, less intensive way, it helps reduce the impact on the land and the environment, as well as supporting smaller farms and livelihoods.
We admit it, we’re pretty proud of our meat. We use 100% free range, English meat, and always will. We’ve teamed up with the mighty Yorkshire butchers at Swaledale, who supply us with native breed meat. Their goal is not to achieve the biggest animal in the shortest period of time (nasty business), but simply to produce meat that is exceptional to cook and eat. Because ultimately, the flavour and quality of a dish goes hand in hand with the welfare of the animal.
The native breed animals they use at Swaledale are slower to mature. This, along with munching mostly grass and hay, means highly flavourful, beautifully marbled meat.
Fishing our oceans is a very complicated and tricky topic when it comes to sustainability.
It's taken a whole lot of talking, listening and learning to get to a point where we are happy with the fish we use.
Deciding against any of the "big name" fish (Cod, Haddock, Plaice) due to their high rate of overfishing, we explored their equally tasty but less well know cousins who offer a much more abundant and sustainable supply.
For us, Coley fits the bill. With good stock levels across the North Sea and North Atlantic, Coley is part of the cod family, offering delicious chunky flakes of white fish.
Working with Moxon's to source our fresh fish, we have also developed an in house smoked Coley with them which we use in place of the traditional smoked haddock....we think it's even better!
Chalk Stream Trout
We don’t like to play favourites, but ChalkStream is definitely one of our most exciting suppliers. These guys have managed to turn fish farming on its head. Using water from the River Itchen and Test, the farms have fully segregated systems, minimising the impact on the unique chalk stream environments of the main rivers. A current flows through the waterways, so the fish can swim against the flow. Just like us hitting the gym pool, this stops the fish from building up a high fat content (a common issue with farmed fish). ChalkStream has been awarded with RSPCA Assured welfare standards for salmon and trout. It's a pretty incredible achievement and means we can all feel good about tucking in.
If these guys love it, it must be good...
“Beautiful farmed trout, this product is amazing! ChalkStream should be really proud.” - Jamie Oliver
“There has been a trout revival recently, largely down to the passion of producers such as ChalkStream.” - Yotam Ottolenghi
We only use Wildfarmed flour in all of dishes (well, all of the dishes that use flour).
They call it life-changing. We agree.
We spent a day on the farm learning all about their regenerative farming methods. Put simply, the Wildfarmed community of farmers grow wheat in a nature friendly way that’s better for you and the planet.
It means that by enjoying products that support Wildfarmed - like FieldGoods - you are helping to improve soil health, increase biodiversity in our fields, reduce carbon and minimise river pollution.
