Pannage Pork 2025

Description

Please note that Pannage Pork will be ready for delivery on Friday 5th December, or for collection on the 5th, 6th or 7th of December. Quantities are limited and we always sell out!

Pannage Pork 2025 – A Seasonal Hampshire Treasure

Every autumn, something truly special happens in the ancient woodlands of the New Forest. As the acorns, beech mast, and chestnuts fall, pigs are turned out to roam freely in a centuries-old tradition known as pannage. This practice not only protects the forest’s ponies and cattle—since acorns can be poisonous to them—but also produces one of the most distinctive, seasonal meats you’ll ever taste: Pannage Pork.

What Makes Pannage Pork Unique?

The pigs forage naturally, gorging themselves on nuts, roots, and fallen fruit, which infuses the meat with a rich, nutty depth of flavour. The combination of exercise and wild diet produces pork with superb marbling, dark colour, and incredible succulence—qualities you simply can’t replicate with conventional farming.

This year’s pannage season began on 15th September 2025 and will run until November 28th, and with a good crop of acorns across the Forest, the pigs have been thriving. This year’s pigs are a cross between Duroc and Large White, and they are right in the middle of the ancient oak forests, roaming from Lee’s farm to wherever the acorns are most plentiful.  The result is a limited run of pork that celebrates the very best of the New Forest landscape and its ancient rights.

Why It Matters

• Sustainability: Pannage is one of the oldest forms of regenerative farming. By turning pigs out into the forest, the ecosystem is balanced naturally.
• Animal Welfare: The pigs roam freely, foraging as they please.
• Taste: Simply put, this is pork at its finest—flavoursome, juicy, and steeped in heritage.
• With the reduction in Farm Subsidies, Lee needs this income to continue farming and you are supporting this ancient right that is part of English cultural history.  We have increased the cost of our pannage boxes to reflect this support, as well as increased costs at the abattoir.

Available at Stansted Farm Shop

We’re delighted to have a small allocation of New Forest Pannage Pork for 2025, available from mid-October while stocks last.

Cuts include:

• Traditional roasting joints
• Chops and belly for slow cooking
• Handmade sausages

This is a once-a-year opportunity to enjoy a taste of living history.

Pre-order now to secure your share of this rare seasonal treat—when it’s gone, it’s gone until next autumn.

We are taking pre-orders of pannage pork boxes on a first-come, first-serve basis and you must be able to collect or take delivery of your pannage pork at the end of November as we will not have storage capacity at the shop.

Your pork will be vacuum packed, weighed, and labelled – ideal for the freezer – and can be sent by overnight courier throughout the UK.

A quarter box will weigh 5kg in total and has the following cuts:

• 1 shoulder or leg Joint
• 4 x pork chops
• Pork belly
• 1 pack of sausages

The half box contains 10kg of cuts

• 2 small or 1 large Shoulder or leg Joint
• 8 pork chops
• Pork belly
• 1 ham hock
• 2 pack of sausages

Full Box – a total of 20kg of pannage pork, cut to your requirements. You can request whole leg for curing. Please contact us to discuss cuts.

Half Side – unbutchered (can be broken down into shoulder / middle / leg) available at £13/kg. Please contact us directly to order…