Lylehill Farm

Lylehill Farm has been worked by the same family for more than a century, tracing its produce back to a great-grandmother who ran a butcher's shop on Belfast's Crumlin Road, supplied by the family's own land. Today the farm runs 45 spring-calving suckler cows, including Stabiliser cattle bred from Hereford, Angus, Simmental and Gelbvieh lines, plus 130 breeding ewes, across 135 acres at Kilgreel outside Templepatrick. There is no farm shop; beef, lamb and eggs are sold directly online and delivered locally, with free delivery within seven miles and a standing Thursday evening run for orders placed by 9am that day. The farm holds Northern Ireland Farm Quality Assurance certification covering food safety, animal welfare and environmental standards, and breeding records are kept back generations so each order can be traced to the animal it came from. A subscription option is also available for customers wanting a running supply of home-reared meat.