Ready to savour the taste at Agfest

WHEN sausage connoisseurs Oliver and Fiona Stocker couldn’t find local varieties they liked they decided to make their own.

Now the couple, originally from England, are running their own paddock-to-plate pork business, Langdale Farm. It’s based on a small property near Glengarry, where the Stockers breed free-range pigs.

“It all really started because Oliver wanted to make his own sausages,” Mrs Stocker said. “We’re English and we just couldn’t find any traditional- style sausages with the right flavour and texture that we really liked.”

For the first time this year, patrons at Agfest will be able to taste the Stockers’ homemade sausages cooked in their specially designed smoker.

The couple breed crossbred Berkshire and Saddleback pigs, which they said had good growth rates and didn’t carry too much fat.

The couple produce nitrate-free bacon and two types of sausage — a pork and traditional breakfast.

Agfest starts on Thursday and is expected to draw about 60,000 people over three days to Quercus Park, Carrick.