Norton Barton is a 348-acre farm located high up overlooking the town of Bude and all the way down the Cornish coast. Having originally believed they would run a couple of holiday cottages, Richard and Fionagh decided instead to keep the farm running, with farming experience gained almost exclusively from listening to the Archers and the kindness of their neighbours, they embarked on their journey as farmers. In 2009, seeking to add value to the site and keep the farm (on which they now bread pigs) profitable, Cornish Charcuterie was born.
Norton Barton Farm is one of only two food enterprise zones in the South West, the site of a local development orders, home to 5 companies, approximately 20 employees, one wind turbine, 4 much more grown up children, and 2 conspicuously not retired ex investment bankers.
Now Norton Barton Artisan Food Village is a remarkable feat in the world of artisan food production, but the setting for a quiet countryside life, it is not. The project as a whole is dedicated to ethically and environmentally viably producing the best quality food and drink products whilst supporting and sustaining the unique Cornish way of life, doing so by, among other things, farming the pigs that go into the production of the salami and rillettes that they produce.