Meet Our Founder

Born in Middlesbrough, John's zest for life started in the cradle. Son of a Hungarian father and a Yorkshire mother who met in a bakery, his upbringing mostly revolved around food. With a strong Hungarian heritage, home cooking abounded in the Pallagi household and John's culinary senses were awakened from an early age.

With plenty of restaurant insight and experience gained from his years in hospitality, John started to realise there was a real dearth of restauraunt-quality produce available to the home cook. Born in 2011, Farmison & Co was founded as an online platform supplying meat, fruit & veg and dairy to households all over the UK.

In 2014, the decision was made to slimline Farmison & Co, focussing on sourcing sustainable meat from smallholdings with herds of slow reared heritage breed animals from Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria.

Since then, Farmison & Co has gone from strength to strength on it's mission to get the nation to Eat Better Meat. John remains CEO to this day, and never doesn't work, but work is such a joy to him.

He travels regularly with his wife Emily and two children an insists that the family tries all the local delicasies when they do so. He has a book in him on food and travel - he's just waiting for a gap in his schedule to write it!

If you have any feedback for John, reach out to him at [email protected] - he always takes the time to read your comments.