Pork is (soon to be) back on the menu!
I am pleased to announce to our myriad of readers that, following the great success of my first ever lot of pork last week (see previous blogpost), I am getting more pigs! Raising my own pigs has for sometime been a dream of mine, which I made into a reality last August, albeit in micro form (size of herd, not size of pig). Last week I stocked the pork in the shop, and so far all response has been extremely positive. The sausages were succulent, the loins not too fatty, and t
February's news
And the award for ‘peculiar newspaper story of the month’ goes to this: ‘The nation is caught in a courgette crisis!’ Cold temperatures and heavy rain have had a drastic impact on the output of Spanish and Italian farmers, leaving supermarket shelves without their favourite glossy green courgettes, and it seems that British shoppers are at a loss at the so-called ‘tragedy’. Well, we are unashamed to say that we too are caught in the courgette crisis. In fact, we haven’t had c