Cooper's Oxford Pork

At the Earth Trust, we run a programme called Farm Step which offers land and farm buildings to aspiring farmers who have previously been locked out of the industry by high land prices or lack of skills. We support green businesses who will work together for sustainable land management.

One of our Farm Step tenants is Mark Cooper. Mark keeps his Oxford Sandy and Black pigs in the woods around the North Farm part of the Earth Trust site, where they forage in the undergrowth and encourage rare woodland plants to thrive in the disturbed soil.

Every spring, the Countryside Skills students pay Mark a visit to learn more about the pigs and how Mark and his family look after them. Today, it was the turn of our students from Wallingford School.

You can buy Cooper’s Oxford Pork sausages online or from local farmers markets. We can highly recommend them!