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It seems like I’ve been travelling an awful lot recently. Some of you may know that I’ve just returned from a three-week trip to Tasmania. It’s all in the name of work, honestly!As part of my Nuffield Scholarship, I have...
Many people ask us what happens to the animals here on the farm during wintertime. Do they have to go inside? Do they have to wear winter jackets? Do they need extra food? The answer is quite simply that our animals graze...
Farm2Fork is blazing a trail in the grass-fed revolution, and I was lucky enough to spread the word about the benefits of grass-fed meat at a recent conference in Oxford.My presentation at The Oxford Real Farming Conference was entitled Our...
I’ve recently returned from my travels around America to discover why grass-fed meat is not promoted as widely in the UK.After winning a prestigious Nuffield Scholarship, I was tasked with researching this niche market and reporting back on my findings.In...
Here at Farm2Fork we raise traditional, native breed beef, goose and lamb to live exactly as nature intended. It means that at Greenway farm we have chosen to respect nature’s seasons, and graze our lush herb-rich meadow pastures to provide...
As well as a farm move Ollie has successfully won a prestigious Nuffield Farming Scholarship this year. This will allow him to investigate why the benefits of 100% grassfed meat and dairy are not widely promoted within the UK food...
Greenway Farm's pasture consists of what's known as 'herbal grazing leys'. In these new grazing leys you will find…4 varieties of grass, 6 varieties of clover, the herbs: birdsfoot trefoil, sainfoin, chicory, ribgrass, burnet, yarrow and ‘sheep’s parsley’!!So why all the green...
In June the whole farm moved!From the small scale operation at Grove Farm to 125 acres of south facing land near Ilminster, Somerset. Now at the new ‘Greenway Farm’, Ollie can realise his dream of creating a sustainable, healthy farm that...
First day of filming on the farm... Ollie talks about the first steps of goose production - rearing healthy goslings! Farm2Fork will feature in a new film for smallholders 'a practical goose guide' by the Smallholder Series. http://www.smallholderseries.co.uk/
A fourth generation Somerset farmer left with no farm to inherit is keeping the family tradition alive, by running a geese farm in his spare time. Young Oliver White is the operations manager at Hestercombe Gardens at Cheddon Fitzpaine, but...
