We have two boxes of butchered Berkshire Pedigree Pork available this week. One box contains a butchered half pig, costing £160 with a guaranteed minimum of 20kg of pork (£8 per kilogram). Typically, the weight is around 22.5kg (£7.11 per kilogram). The other contains a butchered quarter pig, costing £80 with a guaranteed minimum weight of 10kg. [...]
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Archive | August, 2011
Drooling over banana cake
29 August, 2011
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I’m sitting at my desk, sipping black coffee, making phone calls to find buyers for our pigs and pork, and drooling as I do. I realise that almost certainly sounds like a strange thing to be doing, even allowing for the fact that I am both somewhat toothless and ageing. There is a more prosaic [...]
Read more We were right, cars are out
28 August, 2011
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Who’d have thought, when we sold our second car back in 2006 and replaced it with a trike, that a family of mad, grungy and slightly disreputable crofters were well ahead of a social trend? As it turns out, we were. Apparently, one in five British households are getting rid of second cars to save [...]
Read moreGrowing carrots
27 August, 2011
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We like carrots, eat them in abundance and plant many to meet our needs but, as with many vegetable crops, they can be a little tricky to grow in our conditions. Our topsoil is poor, stony and acidic, we have hard frosts from November through to April, the growing season is further curtailed because our [...]
Read more Two pigs for the abattoir
25 August, 2011
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I took two finished Berkshire pigs on their trip to the abattoir today. It was a reasonably quick, straightforward trip for a change as the weather was good, there were few tractors or trucks on the rural roads I use and the Land Rover was running well. As an added bonus, the abattoir changed the [...]
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