Butcher profile: Will Simkin, Essington Farm Shop, Wolverhampton
Sustainable Food Trust
MAY 31, 2023
A gap year of just travelling didn’t feel right, so he took a job on a palm oil plantation in Papua New Guinea. With roughly 230 acres, the farm is relatively small, says Simkin, but “with pigs you can still work at scale, have a viable business and provide excellent animal welfare”. In 2005, aged 23, he returned to the farm.
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