Copper bottomed!

Sometimes a confluence of circumstances can bring about unexpected change. The Covid pandemic, a healthy deer population and the increasingly thorny issue of the use of lead ammunition conjoined to bring about a cultural shift in how game meat, in particular venison, was sourced in a small corner of Devon.

Andy Gray and his family have farmed at Copplestone, near Crediton, since 1991. His M. C. Kelly butchering business supplies meat to caterers and retailers in that part of the West Country. It was his friendship with Tim Woodward, the chief executive of the Country Food Trust, a food poverty charity, that proved the catalyst for change.

Confab

At the onset of the pandemic Andy Gray, Tim Woodward and Tim Maddams,