The lambs have gone

We did keep the four ewes, so only the 2 rams have gone today. They will be hung for a week and then distributed - one 1/2 to us, 3 other halves sold.

Quest is now to find some more sock lambs!

Now it's the lambs...

Two of our dorset lambs are going next week, they are the two males. Our 4 ewes are staying in the hopes of breeding them next year when they get older. Next summer/fall probably. We've sold 3 halves of the male lambs, with a potential other two halves to sell if we can spare them. We may have to get some more store lambs to meet the demand before we can breed our own.

Meanwhile we are searching for an abattoir that will take our chickens once we start breeding them in a few months time - proving very difficult to find someone that will take chickens on a smaller scale.

Alan's vegetable plot is still producing more than we can eat, we've managed to sell a few things on the weekend but having to freeze the rest. May run out of room first!

Our meat has come back

And it's lovely - one pig came back today, another one tomorrow.

Available now:

Ale&Hop Sausages, packs of 6-8, 450g

Cumberland Sausages, packs of 6-8, 450g

"Regular" Sausages, packs of 6, 450g

All sausages are £3 per pack

Small 1.5-2kg joints & roasts, £6.50-7.50 per kilo

For pre-order:

Gammon, bacon, and cured pork (uncooked ham basically) ranging between £9-11 per kilo

Taking Christmas orders

Pork and Sausages for Sale!

We are pleased to announce the start of the seasons pork for sale.. Our middle whites will be coming back this Friday, August 14th and we will have 1.5-2kg roasts, chops and sausages available.

We are in Marden - and delivery to most places, Mid and West Kent and East Sussex. Phone 01622 236 171 for more details.

So what's happened..?

After a very long delay of posting, what has happened?

A brief update is that we had 10 pigs (Middle Whites, Gloucester Old Spots, Saddlebacks, and Large Blacks) until last Monday when the two whites went to the abattoir. They come back on Friday, which is very exciting. (We have pork and sausages for sale!)

In a month or two a few more are going, but 2 are fattening up to become a "baconer".

We have six lambs, 4 ewes and 2 rams. The 2 rams are going to next month.

As well as that our Light Sussex chicks are now chickens and have moved residence to the field - the black Orpingtons are next to move across and are huge and fluffy - beautiful animals. No eggs as yet but hopefully soon. One of the Orpingtons is definitely a cockerel so we are hopefully in business to start breeding our own.

And Alan has been extremely busy getting the huge vegetable plot going. We now have some gorgeous potatoes, peas, runner beans, green/purple/yellow beans, borletti beans, spinach, cabbages, chard, corn, tomatoes, brocolli etc etc the list goes on. Well done Alan, he's worked tirelessly.

And yet more pictures..

Here are our chickens, they are the ones saved from our good friends free range farm (commercially rotated yearly) and the only 2 left out of our four.  This breed is bred for high burn out, so sadly don't live long and don't give eggs very well as they age but we like that we have saved them.  They are great chucks, Catherine is able to pick them up.

Also, Alan's shelter for the pigs.  There is, sadly, no natural shad on the field so we've built a shelter on legs, corrugated tin from last years pig house on four posts.  Job done.  In the summer months we will rely on this as well as giving them a mud pit for sunscreen.

Our soon to be adopted piggies..

These will join us end of May... Saddleback/Large Black crosses..