Veg boxes are a hit. Why couldn’t someone do the same for grass-fed, free-range meat? Cue James Mansfield and James Flower, voted by OFM readers as their 2019 winner
James Mansfield and James Flower met in 2006, in a blaze of tweed, shotguns and Range Rovers at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester. “Don’t judge us,” says Flower, who grew up rearing cattle in Somerset. He was expecting the place – now the Royal Agricultural University – to be full of farmers, but there were more people there to study “estate management, that kind of thing. It was a bit of a shock although we met some amazing people, but in the first week James and I met and stuck together.”
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