Awe Richards and Co
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Family-owned butcher sources all produce from within 50km of shopfront - ABC News
Thursday 4 Jun 2026 by
AWE Richards Butchers shop is something of a rarity, with everything for sale sourced less than 50 kilometres from its shopfront in South Australia's Bordertown.The business has also been in the same family, and the same location, for more than 80 years.Steve Richards is the third generation of the family to take on running the shop started by his grandfather, Alan William Ernest, in 1935.AWE learned the butchering trade in Jervois before deciding his future in an unusual fashion."He flipped a coin, tails was Loxton and heads was Bordertown - it landed on heads so that's where he came,... Read more >

