Atholl Glens Products
Atholl Glens farmers are proud of their products, and the values that they represent. When you purchase Atholl Glens beef, lamb or mutton you are able to share in these values and experience a truly fantastic product with many benefits:
- Authentic organic produce from the Scottish Highlands
- Animals enjoy the freedom of a natural setting
- Animals are allowed to rear their young instinctively and naturally
- Natural goodness in the meat thanks to the animals' mineral-rich grazing
- Higher levels of Omega 3 than non-organic meat
- Enhanced flavour as the meat is matured on the bone for at least 21 days for beef and lamb, or 14 days for mutton
- Blast-freezing seals in the flavour and nutrients more effectively than home-freezing
- Meat is delivered in reusable packaging, with a Freepost label to return it
Beef
Organic beef really is second to none, with outstanding quality and flavour. The farmers in the Atholl Glens group have been farming their land for generations, and care more than anything about the welfare of their animals. Cattle graze freely on the organic pastures, and enjoy a stress-free life. They lead a natural life, eating a nutritious, natural diet, and do not receive any routine drugs. All Atholl Glens beef is matured on the bone for at least 21 days, giving a fantastic flavour with natural goodness in every bite.
Atholl Glens beef is available in various different beef boxes, in mixed beef and lamb boxes or as individual cuts (please click for a helpful illustrated guide to Beef and Lamb cuts.)
Lamb
Just like the cattle, Atholl Glens' lambs are free to graze the hills and fields. Atholl Glens rears Scottish Blackface lambs, a breed with a reputation for its unrivalled sweet flavour and tenderness. Blackface are well suited to hill farms, being very hardy and thriving on a natural diet without the need for expensive and unnatural concentrate feeds. The lush organic grassland and heather moorlands grazed by our lambs offer unrivalled foraging and produce succulent, tender lamb, full of flavour and as natural as can be.
Atholl Glens lamb is available in a half lamb box, in mixed beef and lamb boxes or as individual cuts (please click for a helpful illustrated guide to Beef and Lamb cuts.)
Mutton
A delicious meat whose reputation has been damaged in recent years, mutton was once the staple meat of British households. Now, Prince Charles has backed Mutton Renaissaince, a campaign urging Britons to eat more mutton, and the meat is steadily growing in popularity again. Mutton is generally agreed to be meat from sheep that are over two years old. Atholl Glens prefers to mature its' sheep a little longer, producing mutton from ewes between three and five years. Our mutton all comes from Scottish Blackface ewes which have been allowed to mature on the grass pastures and heather hills of Atholl Estates. The heather in the ewes' diets adds a fantastic depth of flavour to the meat. The meat is hung on the bone for at least two weeks, to allow the flavour to develop, before being butchered. Mutton is best cooked slowly on a low heat, and is equally as delicious roasted, stewed, casseroled or even in curry.
Atholl Glens mutton is available in a half sheep box or a whole sheep box - butchered, packed and delivered to your door.