Butchery at Bowhouse

Every animal is handpicked from the surrounding Balcaskie estate, where it is reared organically on a fully pasture fed diet. A rare breed Lincoln Red herd was introduced to Balcaskie in 2019, fed on grass all year round and moved daily to fresh pasture sown with herbal rich grasses; while that herd grows, Luing, British Shorthorn and Aberdeen Angus cattle are also picked from the field by Euan and the estate manager. The lamb is 100% grass fed and spends its life in the fields around the estate, and all the beef and lamb from Balcaskie is organic certified and Pasture for Life assured. Tamworth pigs live outside all year, rooting in pastures, cereal stubbles, forage crops and woodland, and the counter also carries aged cull ewe mutton and wild roe venison from the East Neuk.

Nothing here is aged in a vacuum pack. Whole carcasses are hung in humidity controlled fridges with Himalayan rock salt on the floor to draw the moisture out, and each cut is used only at its prime, so you get more meat and less water. You can buy over the counter at unit 5 from Tuesday to Sunday, 8am to 4pm, and the butchery also trades at the monthly Bowhouse market weekends. Seasonal meat boxes go UK wide overnight by courier in insulated wool boxes. The team offers a private butchery and wholesale service too, for other small scale producers who want their meat handled with the same care that went into rearing it.