It has been a long time since the newsletter – printer problems and then a house move! Thank you to those of you who kept reminding me that a newsletter was long overdue!
We have finished the silage – luckily just before the current bout of wet weather started. We employed a different method this year. Normally we would cut the grass and then three or four tractors would take loads of trips to carry the grass to the farm in trailers. This year we used a forage wagon. They cut the grass strips and then collect them into their trailers which have a huge capacity. The load was unloaded at the farm and Farmer Jim would use his tractor to pile the grass up. It is then covered in sheeting and held down by tyres.
New to the shop:
We have made Summer Puddings, Biscuits For Cheese, and also Fish Pie using delicious fresh fish from The Cornish Seafood Co.
They are here with their van every Tuesday midday til 3pm.
Cornish Orchards have a new Apple and Pear juice. It is currently only available in the small size.
We have a new product from Hedgerow Cottage who produce a brilliant Cornish Biltong. Using Cornish beef, it is air dried and flavoured.
Trenance Chocolate have also produced a chocolate range with no added sugar. It is suitable for diabetics.
Roskilly’s have introduced the Hokey Pokey 110ml single serving size.
Cornish Cyder Farm have stopped making their vintage cider but instead they are producing Healey’s Classic.
Camel Valley’s 2007 Bacchus won gold at the International Wine Challenge 2009.
Boddington’s Strawberry Sparkle is no longer available.
Our current stocks of Polgoon Fizz will be our last. This was a limited edition wine and we will continue to stock the rest of their range as usual.
In early June our Christmas turkeys arrived on the farm as day olds. This year we are only doing bronze turkeys.
The turkey chicks – called poults – will live indoors in a specially built shelter until they are of a large enough size so that they are not small enough to be prey to the falcons, sparrowhawks, black backed gulls and ravens that inhabit the area. Some of these birds will take pigeons and even pheasants, so the poults need to be of a decent size before they are able to be free to roam the field.
The geese are doing well and have been in the fields for a little while now.
The rain has put a dampener on fruit production and at the moment we are unable to get raspberries and tayberries. The raspberries have suffered especially in the rain and simply will not keep. We hope that they will be available soon – as long as the weather perks up!
The broad beans have finished, but we hope to have a good supply of cherry tomatoes from our polytunnel soon.
Apologies for the condition of the car park this week. We had to dig up quite a large portion of it to install a new water pipe but the heavy rain that came the following day made the place rather wet and muddy! We hope to a new surface down in the next couple of days.
