Meet Our Team

Jake

Head Butcher

What is your role at Homegrown? 

Butchery Manager

Tell us about a typical day for you at Homegrown?  

Come in, Do orders, Fill shop, Wholesale orders etc

What is your favourite part of your job? 

Delivering the meat orders

What is your least favourite part of your job?

Packing meat or pumping hams

What is your favourite cut of meat & why?  Also your go to dish that is meaty & yummy? 

Scotch Fillet - Go to dish Beef burgers

What is your favourite pantry product that we stock to go with meat?

Texanz beef rub

What is the most random thing you have had in your fridge?

Which body part do you wish you could detach and why?

My ears, so i don't have to listen to everyone's bull…

If your five-year-old self suddenly found themselves inhabiting your current body, what would your five-year-old self do first?

Try drive to dairy to get ice cream


Rob

Butcher

What is your role at Homegrown? 

Butcher

Tell us about a typical day for you at Homegrown?  

Start by breaking beef then onto filling orders. I also will spend a lot of time processing homekill. Once finished I'll start on small goods, then clean up for the day home time!

What is your favourite part of your job? 

Using a knife & Learning how to make new things.

What is your least favourite part of your job?

Sometimes the only reason to have a rule is to have a rule.

What is your favourite cut of meat & why?  Also your go to dish that is meaty & yummy? 

Mince, so versatile -My go to dish is Satay meatballs

What is your favourite pantry product that we stock to go with meat?

I enjoy The Foursaucemen range.

What is the most random thing you have had in your fridge?

Pet Rats

Which body part do you wish you could detach and why?

Detachable hands seem useful.

If your five-year-old self suddenly found themselves inhabiting your current body, what would your five-year-old self do first?

Probably break a bunch of stuff.


Katie

Head 0f Customer Happiness

What is your role at Homegrown? 

Front of house/ head of customer happiness

Tell us about a typical day for you at Homegrown?  

My day consists of Checking emails & online orders then making up the boxes and fulfilling all orders going out. Once all orders are done I'm customer facing while cleaning, slicing and filling the deli with all our delicious goodies.

What is your favourite part of your job? 

Meeting & Chatting with a wide range of people everyday.

What is your least favourite part of your job?

Karens! Or Vacuuming that's not my favourite

What is your favourite cut of meat & why?  Also your go to dish that is meaty & yummy? 

Pork belly because I think there is something really satisfying about getting a good crackle.

Beef schnitzel cheese and ham roll ups, just super easy and very yummy!

What is your favourite pantry product that we stock to go with meat?

Man Grind from Pepper & Me

What is the most random thing you have had in your fridge?

Beauty Face Masks

Which body part do you wish you could detach and why?

My Nose. I just feel like the bad outweighs the good.

If your five-year-old self suddenly found themselves inhabiting your current body, what would your five-year-old self do first?

Go Shopping and spend all my money


Livy

Apprentice Butcher

What is your role at Homegrown? 

Apprentice Butcher

Tell us about a typical day for you at Homegrown?  

Starts with a nice welcoming hello to everyone, then on to filling the cabinet and making small goods. Also throughout the day make meat packs, Process homekill and serve customers.

What is your favourite part of your job? 

Learning new things everyday

What is your least favourite part of your job?

Rearranging the freezer!

What is your favourite cut of meat & why?  Also your go to dish that is meaty & yummy? 

-Tomahawk Steak because it looks and tastes badass.

-Go to dish would be anything I can pressure cook because life.

What is your favourite pantry product that we stock to go with meat?

Wild Country Mint + Apple Lamb Jam

What is the most random thing you have had in your fridge?

A Bumble Bee

Which body part do you wish you could detach and why?

Wisdom Teeth because they're useless.

If your five-year-old self suddenly found themselves inhabiting your current body, what would your five-year-old self do first?

Probably go buy fireworks


Esera  

Apprentice Butcher

What is your role at Homegrown? 

Apprentice Butcher

Tell us about a typical day for you at Homegrown?  

Starts by filling online orders, then dicing beef, pumping and I also get meat in and out of the smoke house.

What is your favourite part of your job? 

Dicing Topside Steak

What is your least favourite part of your job?

End-of-day clean up.

What is your favourite cut of meat & why?  Also your go to dish that is meaty & yummy? 

Lamb Flaps, we islander loves a good lamb flap.

What is your favourite pantry product that we stock to go with meat?

The Four Saucemen :Rib Glaze

What is the most random thing you have had in your fridge?

Fresh Fruit

Which body part do you wish you could detach and why?

My little toe

If your five-year-old self suddenly found themselves inhabiting your current body, what would your five-year-old self do first?

Probably eating sandwiches and pasties



Stu

Butcher

What is your role at Homegrown? 

Butcher

Tell us about a typical day for you at Homegrown?  

Starts early cutting and preparing serveover displays and then anything else that needs doing.

What is your favourite part of your job? 

Everything

What is your least favourite part of your job?

Emptying the brine.

What is your favourite cut of meat & why?  Also your go to dish that is meaty & yummy? 

-Fillet Steak it's so soft & juicy when just cooked.

-Chicken Rolls

What is your favourite pantry product that we stock to go with meat?

There's too many! Black out rub at the moment.

What is the most random thing you have had in your fridge?

Quince paste a litre container of it that expired 2 years ago.

Which body part do you wish you could detach and why?

I detach my lungs and replace them with gills and go diving for crays!

If your five-year-old self suddenly found themselves inhabiting your current body, what would your five-year-old self do first?

Go Hunting or Fishing


Harry

Apprentice Butcher

What is your role at Homegrown? 

Future Head Butcher

Tell us about a typical day for you at Homegrown?  

Turn up, do a bit of this bit of that, head home.

What is your favourite part of your job? 

The people i work with

What is your least favourite part of your job?

Bagging watercress it sucks

What is your favourite cut of meat & why?  Also your go to dish that is meaty & yummy? 

Pork belly because the crackle

What is your favourite pantry product that we stock to go with meat?

Beef Bull Dust

What is the most random thing you have had in your fridge?

Pig Brains

Which body part do you wish you could detach and why?

My Legs replace them with motorised wheels to gas around

If your five-year-old self suddenly found themselves inhabiting your current body, what would your five-year-old self do first?

Go splash out at the dairy



Emma

Cook & Front of House

What is your role at Homegrown? 

Cook for hot food & customer service also positive influence on the butchers

Tell us about a typical day for you at Homegrown?  

Start my day with hanging washing. Then I'm down stairs to start the kitchen, roasts cooked and out, make and cook all the yummy things on today's menu. Help with serving customers, making sammys and then start to clean up. Making sure everything is clean and tidy for the next day.

What is your favourite part of your job? 

Making hot food, coming up with new ideas. Also engaging with customers giving the recipes ideas etc

What is your least favourite part of your job?

Visiting the fat hole

What is your favourite cut of meat & why?  Also your go to dish that is meaty & yummy? 

Any thing slow cooked like beef cheeks or lamb shanks

What is your favourite pantry product that we stock to go with meat?

Man Grind by pepper and me or any pepper and me product.

What is the most random thing you have had in your fridge?

Half empty energy drinks

Which body part do you wish you could detach and why?

Toes they are creepy and strange

If your five-year-old self suddenly found themselves inhabiting your current body, what would your five-year-old self do firs

Go for a joy ride to the dairy ( i'll pick Jake and Harry up on the way)