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Several West farmers are rearing geese for Christmas. Sue Bradley discovers how they’re upholding a centuries old tradition. Christmas is coming and increasing numbers of geese are getting fat on farms throughout the West.Once the festive season’s bird of choice...
For the Cratchit family, the goose was the centerpiece for their humble Christmas dinner in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.Despite goose at that time being considered the cheaper of the birds when compared with turkey – the goose brings the family...
We were lucky enough to have a helping hand from our Wwoofer (volunteer) Nisreen this summer, who’d traveled all the way from Boston, Massachusetts to work at Farm2Fork for three weeks.She’s been chronicling her journey as a Watson Fellow in...
While things are generally peaceful in the pastures of Farm2Fork, we’ve been on our guard for a lot of the summer as the foxes have been circling.We can’t blame them, as the unusually dry weather has meant they are extremely...
A study carried out by Defra back in 2013 showed that in 2010 the average age of farmers in the UK was 59, unchanged from 2007.The industry faces many challenges and it’s struggling to recruit younger workers, but my personal...
You may think that we eat lamb at Easter because of its seasonality.But as our ewes still aren’t due to give birth for another two weeks, Farm2Fork can say with some certainty that Easter lamb isn’t likely to be seasonal,...
It’s not that usual for meat producers to extol the virtues of eating less meat to its customers.But at Farm2Fork we do things a little differently.Of course we want you to buy our meat – after all we consider it...
Chickens can’t live on grass alone. And there is good reason for this.If we fed our poultry 100% grass and didn’t incorporate the essential grain they need in their diet, then they wouldn’t survive.Many of our customers ask us whether...
Sharing a delicious Christmas goose with loved ones fits in perfectly with the latest fashion to eat well and share hearty meals with friends and family.Sweet by Yotam Ottolenghi, Nigella Lawson’s At My Table: A Celebration of Home Cooking, Crave...
On Friday (November 17) the inspiring film In Our Hands premiered in Bristol.Farm2Fork is proud to have been included in this important story behind the blood, sweat and tears of the farmers who are outgrowing the industrial food system.Following a...
This blog post is designed to get you thinking. To show that there’s never just one way to do things.For many years the debate has been running around how best to rear livestock. Scientists have proved that ruminants produce a...
According to the Soil Association less than one sixth of the land on Earth is suitable for growing crops.When we rely so heavily on soil to produce food it’s madness that we’ve taken our soil for granted for so long.The...
