Photo: Supplied / Hamish Best
Conscious Valley has just won an outstanding food producer award for its lamb raised just outside the capital and solid direct to consumers.
It's thick cut loin lamb chops were named the "dish" Hero Ingredient champion.
The animals are raised on the Ōhāriu Valley farm of Hamish Best - an area that is actually a Wellington suburb.
The local farming community is too small to export so he came up with the idea of supplying locally grown red meat for Wellingtonians to buy direct through a weekly market and supplied to local restaurants.
Hamish Best talks to Kathryn about supplying great tasting meat from animals grazing on hill country pastures dusted by Wellington's salt laden winds
