My wife Gail and I first opened Swans Farm Shop near Mold in 2003, and since then we’ve won awards including Retailer of the Year and Champion Butcher for Wales.
Here at Swans we’re passionate about producing the optimum cut of meat for our customer, and food miles, quality and traceability are incredibly important to us. We start at the beginning with happy animals and we keep our own Pedigree Welsh pigs for the shop, so we know exactly the life they’ve life and that it is a very good one.
Our pig herd is growing and growing – we started with two pigs in 2010 and now have over 100!
All our pigs are free range; some piglets are outside from birth, but in the winter they have a spacious shed to keep them nice and warm. You can see some of the older pigs outside the farm shop roaming in the fields with their huts for shelter.
As with all farming, pig keeping involves a lot of work, but we love it. It is a lifestyle that our customers are buying into when they buy our product; they are saying ‘yes, this is the kind of well-loved and hand-reared animal that we want to see’.
