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This is the place to keep up to date with news of special events, culinary innovations and new arrivals among our herds of deer.

 

Celebrating Our Butchery at Sky Park Farm 

10.03.2022

The legacy of Butchery goes back through several generations of the Noonan family, who were originally “cattle dealers and butchers” in Tipperary, and created a successful family business with ‘Noonan’s Prime Meats”.  

The legacy of SKy Park Farm Butcher. A Noonan stands proudly outside of his butcher shop.

Before Sky Park Farm opened to the public in 2021, there was no onsite butchery. As one of the principal suppliers to Waitrose for venison, the deer were moved to Dovecote Park for slaughter and butchery. With a drive to make sustainably sourced venison available to the public, planning permission was secured in April 2019 for an education centre, visitor centre with cafe, farm shop, butcher and restaurant, with the Farm Shop and Butcher ultimately opening its doors in October 2021. Now, the deer are culled on site and our butcher processes the venison for the Butcher and The Grazing Rooms in the Deer Larder.

“Employing experts in their trade is part of our ethos at Sky Park Farm. We are incredibly proud to have Hawie as part of our team – his knowledge and passion for meat is palpable to all our visitors. Supplying our own shop and cafe enables us to lower our carbon footprint and reinforces our vision to deliver venison with zero food miles from farm to fork.” 

Hawie started learning his trade when he was just 18. Highly experienced, Hawie trained in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, then spent eight years as an apprentice before becoming manager and then running his own shop. Moving to England in 2004, Hawie worked for Laverstoke Park, Cowdray Farm Shop and Secretts where he ultimately became Head Butcher. 

Hawie arrived at Sky Park Farm excited by the ethos, the energy of the people, and the reputation of the Deer farming team, led by Dominic Strutt, Estate Manager. 

His focus at the Sky Park Farm Butcher is to provide something for everyone – whether venison, lamb, beef, pork or chicken. 

“Ultimately, I am blessed with outstanding quality meat. My job is to then deliver this to customers, in cuts that I know will cook beautifully. I love to experiment with different flavour combinations of prepared dishes. Really the quality of the raw product is what will shine through – like with our rib of beef and cowboy steaks”.

The Butcher at Sky Park Farm is open every day, 9am to 5pm.

An old image of the original Noonan Butcher store front

The Petersfield Asteroids Sponsorship

29.08.2023

Sky Park Farm Proudly Sponsors Petersfield Asteroids U-8 Football Team! 🌟⚽ At Sky Park Farm, the community is at the heart of everything we do. Sky Park is thrilled to announce our sponsorship of the Petersfield Asteroids, our talented local […]

Great Taste Award Winners 2023

07.08.2023

Sky Park Farm Butchery have excelled at the Great Taste Awards 2023, the world’s most coveted food and drink awards and officially make the best unsmoked bacon in the South of England! All four of butcher Hawie and his team’s […]

Deli & Butchery Expansion Tuesday 2nd May 2023

02.05.23

On Tuesday 2nd May for 24 hours, the Grazing Rooms and the Farm Shop will be closed to undergo an exciting expansion project. Due to popular demand will be extending our Butcher and Deli counters. We will be serving tea, coffee, […]