100yrs
A 300-acre farm, in the family.
The Webster family acquired the farm in Lathom over a hundred years ago. Cereals, mostly, and a little bit of everything that fitted in between.
Our story · Three generations · Webster family
A hundred
years deep.
The farm has been in the Webster family for over a hundred years. The third generation — Roger, Bernie and two of their four children, Andrew and Joe — runs it today.
1987
Roger's dad retired.
The third generation took over. We reduced the variety of crops, brought in a small herd of cattle — Limousin, Charolais, and Belgian Blue X — and started rearing beef on cereals grown on the farm.
Late 90s
BSE and foot-and-mouth.
Two crises in a decade made it clear we couldn't rely on selling cattle through markets alone. We started preparing beef in the family kitchen for friends and relatives, and put a sign up on the roadside for burgers and steaks.
2005
Steve joined as our first butcher.
A 3ft counter, weekends only, was no longer enough. Steve has been our head butcher ever since — every cut on the counter is one he's walked through himself.
2007
The stable next door.
Expanded into a neighbouring stable to stock fruit, veg, milk and ice cream. Customers had to walk between two buildings. It worked.
2009
A purpose-built food hall.
Roger, Bernie and their four children — Andrew, Louise, Joe and Tom — opened the Taylors Farm Shop you walk into today. One stone barn, one shop, six counters.
From Field to Fork
From cereal in the field
to dinner on the table.
Four steps from the field next door to your kitchen — no middlemen, no long lorry rides, no question marks about where it came from.
01
Cereals
We grow the cereals on our farm in Lathom that feed our cattle. Limousin, Charolais and Belgian Blue X.
02
Reared
Reared on the farm. Steve's been our head butcher since 2005 — he picks every animal he cuts.
03
Hung
Hung on the bone in the dry-ager out the back of the shop. Patience is the recipe.
04
Counter
Cut at our counter the morning you walk in. Ask for cooking instructions — there are cards by the till.
Awards & accreditations
Twice voted Butcher's
Shop of the Year.
We don't shout about it often, but the rosettes go up on the wall and stay there. Here's the proof in dispatches.
Awards
A few mentions in dispatches.
2015
Butcher's Shop of the Year
Lancashire Life Food & Drink Awards.
2017
Butcher's Shop of the Year
Same award, second time. Steve says it's the dry-ager.
Every year since
Three generations served.
Customers' grandparents now sending grandchildren in for the burgers.
"The shop's been here since the kitchen counter wasn't big enough."— The Websters