Alpine Mutton

At Timberline Park we promote mutton as an alternative to lamb, as it tastes great and the animal enjoys a much longer life on a diet of meadow grasses and natural surrounds. In blind side-by-side comparison with lamb, mutton was declared the more delicious, rounded, soft and sticky meat by a landslide, because the meat is so full of flavour. Couples wonderfully with tempranillo, cabernet sauvignon and shiraz - one of life’s great pleasures.

2024 price list:
$350 per box all cuts individually packaged and labeled with weight. Just as you would buy it in the supermarket (excludes offal) Delivery to Mansfield area free of charge. Delivery to other areas can be organised.

Every pack of Alpine Mutton has been grown on grass and processed on the property. As part of the modern “sustainable” movement of food production and consumption, we ask you to consider mutton as a more ethical meat choice. Enjoy a richer favour from an adult sheep who has a longer paddock life.

HEALTHY EATING 

Due to its impressive nutrition profile, sheep meat is perhaps the healthiest commonly available meat. It is a nutrient-dense food, with iron rich proteins, vitamins, essential minerals with a high myoglobin content - an excellent component of a healthy diet.

Lamb - young sheep, often under 6 months-old. Incisor teeth are yet to grow.

Hogget - a lamb that's lost its milk teeth, which usually happens at the 12-month mark. Hogget enjoys great flavour and the meat is old enough to take on the flavours of the animals diet.

Mutton - the meat of a sheep with at least two incisor teeth, usually over two-years-old. The high-quality protein in mutton sates the appetite and repairs and maintains our bodies. This meat has every essential amino acid we need, along with high levels of valuable micronutrients, including easily absorbed iron, zinc and B vitamins. Since sheep graze on green pastures, the fat in their meat is an excellent source of conjugated linoleic acid, which is heart-healthy and helps protect us against cancer. Mutton can also have gamey venison flavours and notes of heather and grass, living a fat and happy life munching on fields of bracken, herbs and flowers.

“I CATERED FOR A GROUP OF 20 LAST YEAR AND SOURCED PROTEIN FROM THE ETHICAL MEAT LEGENDS AT FEATHER AND BONE IN MARRICKVILLE, SYDNEY. A DAY WAS SPENT SLOW-COOKING LAMB AND MUTTON  TO THE SAME ROSEMARY, ANCHOVY AND GARLIC-HEAVY RECIPE AND, IN A BLIND SIDE-BY-SIDE COMPARISON, MUTTON WAS DECLARED THE MORE DELICIOUS, ROUNDED, SOFT AND STICKY MEAT BY A LANDSLIDE”.

- CALLAN BOYS, NATIONAL FOOD AND WINE WRITER, GOOD FOOD 

ANIMAL WELFARE 

We practice good animal husbandry and constantly look to industry and fellow farmers for continual improvements to ensure that our animals are healthy and happy. We believe animal health and nutrition is vital to thrive. To ensure minimal animal discomfort our animals are not transported for processing, allowing animals to live in the area for their entire lives. You will also notice that we leave the tails on our animals as apart from there is no reason to remove them from shedding sheep, some studies have indicated this may reduce prolapse in ewes.

Timberline Pastoral Co. is proudly LPA accredited.

The Livestock Production Assurance (LPA) Program is the Australian cattle, sheep and goat industry's on-farm assurance program. The LPA Standards address food safety, biosecurity and animal welfare practices and underpin declarations made by producers on LPA National Vendor Declarations (NVDs).