Meet Our Founder

Born in Middlesbrough (Yorkshire as it then was), John's zest for life started in the cradle. Son of a Hungarian immigrant 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 all awakened from an early age.

With plenty of restaurant insight and experience gained from his years cutting his teeth in creating, building and running his own restaurants, 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 to households all over the UK and into mainland Europe.

Sourcing sustainable meat across all species (largely from smallholdings) Farmison & Co work with slow rearing British heritage breed producers and farmers, ie the custodians of the the great grasslands across the UK.

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

Describing himself as a 'food-tourist', John travels when he can with his wife Emily and two children to the great food nations around the globe where the family has little choice but to try all the local delicacies. "Food should be fun, flavoursome and sustainably produced" is the cry often heard when talking to journalists or consumers.

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.