Welcome to Empire Farm
The Empire Farm is a 100-acre Soil Association certified organic farm just south of Wincanton in Somerset owned by Sally and Adrian Morgan. The farm is the venue of our Farm School where we run a wide range of butchery and gardening courses. Here you can learn how to become self sufficient in fruit and vegetables, butcher a pig or lamb, discover the delights of charcuterie or join us for our whole hog weekend.
Courses at Empire Farm
The butchery courses are run by David Coldman and he is the main contact for all matters to do with butchery and charcuterie. Please contact him direct.
Sally Morgan organises the gardening courses.
Contact details are given at the bottom of the page. Bookings are made via Eventbrite.
Hands-on butchery
The hands-on butchery day at the Empire Farm is a very popular course and early booking is strongly advised. On this full day course you learn butchering skills so you can deal with your own meat, and take home all the meat you have butchered... [read more]
Whole hog weekend
Two days looking at pork butchery and charcuterie. The starting point for this course is two halves of pig and over the duration of the course your tutor will show you how this meat can be butchered and turned into a wonderful selection of pork products such as bacon, pancetta, ham, coppa, sausage, chorizo, pate and pies, lard and rillettes... [read more]
Creating a climate resilient kitchen garden
This course aimed at people who have started growing veg or taken on an allotment and want to learn more about becoming more self sufficient in fruit and vegetables. ..
Television, radio and news
Sally’s books include The Resilient Garden and Allotment Handbook and The Healthy Vegetable Garden published by Chelsea Green. The Climate Change Garden, written jointly with Kim Stoddart was published in 2019 and republished by Quarto in 2023.
Sally writes regularly for garden and smallholding magazines. She give talks to garden clubs around the country and has been a speaker at RHS Hampton Court Flower Festival, The Yeo Valley Organic Garden Festival, and BBC Gardener’s World Live. She was featured on Gardener’s World in October 2025.
We were delighted to read that the Guardian named Empire Farm School in the top 5 butchery schools in the country. Our wild meats day was featured in Shooting Times in January 2015 and our butchery courses appeared in the Sunday Times in January 2016. In August 2016 our butchery courses featured in Waitrose Weekend. Further reviews have appeared in Country Smallholding in 2017. Check out our media mentions here.
The Healthy Vegetable Garden
and Living on One Acre or less
Sally’s popular books, The Healthy Vegetable Garden and Living on one acre or less, cover smallholding and gardening topics.
The Climate Change Garden
The Climate Change Garden, was published by Quarto in 2023.
All these books can be bought at discounted rates on the courses or via Sally’s other website www.sallymorgan.co.uk
