Chopped Butchery
Beef, Lamb & Pork
Family-owned farm butchery specialising in nose-to-tail butchery with heritage breeds — Galloway beef, Southdown lamb, and free-range pork. Paddock to plate, nothing hidden.
A butchery with a farm attached
Chopped Butchery is a family-owned boutique butchery based on their farm in the beautiful hills of South Canterbury. They specialise in nose-to-tail butchery, working with traditional heritage breeds and doing things a little differently.
Because they’re small, when you contact them, you’re talking directly to the family — no middlemen, no call centres. They process as much as possible right on farm, giving you full transparency from paddock to plate.
“Think of us as a butchery with a farm attached — slow grown, properly raised, fully traceable.”
Transitioning away from synthetic nitrogen and heavy phosphate, using natural inputs like seaweed and fish fertiliser to build healthier soil.
Galloway cattle and Wiltshire sheep. They grow slower than commercial breeds — but produce exceptional flavour that’s been proven over centuries.
On-farm processing, full traceability, no waste. Old-fashioned on purpose — because it produces better results.
Fresh meat delivered to your community each week
The Chopped Butchery trailer travels across South Canterbury every week, bringing fresh locally sourced meat straight to your community. Keep an eye out for them at these regular stops:
Three products. All raised properly.
Every animal at Chopped Butchery is raised with care — heritage breeds on natural pasture, no shortcuts. Here’s what they produce:
A rare Scottish heritage breed, double-coated and cold-hardy. Naturally low in saturated fat, richly marbled, and proven over centuries for exceptional flavour. Medium-sized and gentle on pasture — a naturally low-input breed.
One of Britain’s oldest breeds, with origins dating back to the 1600s in the Weald of Sussex. Refined over generations for outstanding meat quality. Compact, hardy, and famously flavoursome.
100% free-range NZ pork, raised by Angela and Hamish Cotton on their 370ha farm just 30 minutes from the butchery. Open pasture, fresh air, no cages or barns — high animal welfare and genuine farm-to-butchery traceability.
Get in touch directly
Chopped Butchery is a small family operation — when you reach out, you’re talking straight to them. Order online through their website, follow their Facebook page for mobile butcher updates, or use the enquiry form below and we’ll connect you.
🥩 Chopped Butchery
Based in: South Canterbury
Mobile stops: Timaru, Waimate, Twizel, Oamaru
Website: choppedbutchery.co.nz
