Bryn Cocyn Organic Beef and Lamb
Bryn Cocyn
Llannefydd
Denbigh
LL16 5DH
Contact: Patrick Noble and Joyce Brown
Tel: 01745 540207
Website:
www.bryncocynorganic.co.uk
E-mail:
via website
Beef from Welsh Black and Charolais Cross. Lamb from Beulah Speckled Face sheep.
Soil Association Organic Standard
On sale at:
Denbigh People’s Market
last Friday each month
Ruthin Produce Market
last Saturday each month
Celyn Farmers Market
third Sunday each month
Abbey Leys Farmers Market
first Sunday each month
Wirral Farmers Market
second Saturday each month
From the farm – please telephone before calling
Soon to be at Llanrwst Farmers Market.
A vision of a self-renewing cycle where resources are traded between countries to mutual benefit is how Patrick Noble sees the future of organic food. “For us, the need for organic food production is more about marketing organics as providing a self-sustaining loop of resources, over and above the well known health and welfare benefits of such a system.”
Patrick and his partner Joyce Brown have been following this philosophy at Bryn Cocyn Farm in the shelter of Moel Fodiar above the Vale of Clwyd since 1986 when they took over from Joyce’s father. Rearing Welsh Black and Charolais Cross for beef and Beulah
Speckled Face sheep on low hill land farmed organically since their arrival, they gained the Soil Association’s Organic status in 1989. The couple also grow a variety of vegetables, grains, legumes and herbs, mostly as feed for the cattle and sheep on the farm meaning very little is bought in.
Butchered only 10 minutes’ drive away in Denbigh at one of the very few organically licensed slaughterhouses, Bryn Cocyn Farm’s organic meat is increasingly available at Farmers Markets in the region, as well as at events including the St Asaph Woodfest and the Denbigh and Flint Show. Callers are also welcome by prior arrangement at their peaceful farm where you’ll probably be greeted by their collie Floss and pass a motley of adopted cats.
“We’re rather excited as we’ll soon be offering an even wider range,” explains Patrick. “We’re about to install a meat processing unit at the farm to produce our own recipe organic burgers and sausages, for which we plan to use our own-grown ingredients such as herbs and cereals as much as possible. So they really will be virtually 100% farm-produced.”
Bryn Cocyn is also about to take part in the new North East Wales Orchards Initiative to grow unidentified varieties of apple selected by the Brogdale Institute for taste and disease resistance. “In the long term this will provide us with some unusual and, hopefully, marvellous tasting apples for sale to our customers.”
Patrick is hoping for a self-renewing cycle of his own. “It would be great for our sons, Huw and Owain, to get involved in the business one day, especially as Owain has just finished his degree in Organic Agriculture at Aberystwyth, but I think he’d like to get some experience elsewhere first.”
