HOLIDAY GUESTS – Your beef will be inside your accommodation ready for your arrival.  It can be placed inside your fridge to defrost in a safe manner or left in your freezer, please let us know your preference in the comments box when you order.  We can also put you an order together for you to take home and deliver it to you on your check out morning.  There is no minimum order for glamping guests.

LOCAL CUSTOMERS – We can deliver between 8.30am to 9.30am most week days, or again between 3.00pm to 4.00pm.  We do not have a shop for you to visit so all items must be pre-purchased online, if you wish to collect this must be pre-arranged please.  We only deliver within the local areas, if you haven’t had a delivery from us previously please just drop us a message to check that we can serve your postcode.  Our minimum orders are £75 for free delivery or £50 collected.

When you begin checkout, please ensure that you let us know which day you would like to receive your delivery in the comments box.  Thank you

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At Cut Thorn Farm we breed pedigree Beef Shorthorn cattle.  This is a native British breed, dating back to the 18th century which originated in the North East region.

As you walk through the Gibside estate you will be able to view the herd happily grazing in the parklands, they are also enrolled on a grassland stewardship scheme and as such are maintaining the biodiversity of the flora and fauna, rather than using intensive farming methods.

Our grass fed cattle are easy keep which means that they grow naturally without having to be fed a high diet of grains.  They produce a natural marbling of fat throughout the meat which leads to a superior taste.  All of our beef is hung for 28 days and sold locally to both our glamping guests and local villages.

We take our cattle to the abattoir ourselves in order to reduce any stress on the animal and use a top local butcher to package our product.  The beef is either sold freshly immediately to local customers or frozen on return in order to preserve freshness and can be stored in your freezer at home for 4 to 12 months depending on the cut.