Farming & Food
Grass provides the perfect diet for cattle and sheep. It is all they need to produce nutritious, healthy meat for people to cook and eat.
But grass can be tricky to manage. Its one aim in life is to grow, produce a seed head and then die. Only skilled grassland farmers can manage it to produce high quality animal food throughout the year – grazed out in the fields or given as conserved winter-feed, either dried as hay or pickled as silage.
The people I write about in these blogs are some of the best and most innovative farmers and chefs in the world. They look after their soils, their land and their animals and take great care to source and prepare the best meat possible. We should be proud of them all.
Cows shaken but not stirred
Apparently earthquake damage can be clearly seen around the yard at Lincoln University Dairy Farm, in South Island, New Zealand.
Mary’s diary a great read!
Mary Quicke’s Diary is always a satisfying read, as much as eating her award winning cheeses!
Monthly updates on what is happening in Devon, inform her customers about life on the farm in easy-to-understand, often evocative language.