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Unlike Donald Trump, we do believe climate change is a “thing”. On the farm, you really get to see how the weather makes a difference to nature, day in, day out. Over the past few years, we’ve seen more extreme...
When something this cute comes home to Farm2Fork we just have to share it with you.Meet our new livestock guardian pups, named Nala and Lula!They're Maremma Sheepdogs – a breed from the region of Tuscany and Lazio in Italy where...
Oliver White’s determination to make a success of his county council tenancy has earned him a place in the finals of the best farmer category in the Western Daily Press Food & Farming Awards. Sue Bradley met him. Every day...
How many chickens does it take to make a pack of livers?No, this isn’t the beginning of a terrible joke. A huge demand on offal here at Greenway Farm, coming mostly from a spike in diets advocating its nutritional value,...
We’ve been lucky enough to land ourselves a LEADER Rural Development Grant, to help us expand and improve facilities here on the farm. It means we can boost productivity and store a wider range of products to benefit our customers....
Here at Farm2Fork we follow organic principles and strive to use natural methods at all times. This means avoiding pesticides, herbicides, not medicating our animals (unless absolutely necessary for their wellbeing), and allowing the animals free access to pasture, all...
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,...
