Small family farm next to Inverness, producing local, sustainable beef and lamb. Druid Temple Farm, Old Edinburgh Road South, Inverness, IV2 6AR
Operating as usual
Wishing all our customers all the best for 2023!
Looking forward to the spring and getting cows back out to fields of grass like this 👇
The shop will be open again on the 7th, more details and what will be in stock later in the week!
Hopefully you've all got over the Christmas food comas and can think about next weekend now! Remember we are closed this Saturday but we do have some beef available for collection this week. There's a pack we've put together and a few other things but just message if there's something you're looking for. Some things will need to be frozen by the 30th/31st.
Pack 1 £40
1.4kg topside or silverside roast
2x 500g diced beef
4x 500g beef mince
2kg potatoes
Pack 2 £15
4x 500g beef mince
Rib roasts available -
Single rib/2 rib/3 rib (on the bone) £25/kg
Rib roast (off the bone) £32/kg
Ribeye steaks £32/kg
💥SPECIAL OFFER💥
Sirloin steaks/roast-was £32/kg,now £22/kg
This is a fantastic piece for a fancy roast at a great price!
Fillet steaks £42/kg
Also available, smoked gammon and cider cured gammon.
Get in touch with any requirements for size etc and to arrange collection.
Massive thanks to everyone who has been to the shop in the last two days and all year. Yesterday was the day I've always feared, when there was more cars than the little car park and road could deal with! I was too scared to look outside to see how people were getting in and out 🤷♂️ Next year we will definitely look into having a more organised time slot collection thing!
Big thanks to all our suppliers and to our butcher Craig who has kept me right on all things butchery since we got the unit back in April.
We are off to enjoy our Black Isle Turkey tomorrow.
Remember we are now closed until the 7th of January, however we will have some beef packs available for collection next week.
Merry Christmas!
Remember we are open until 12 today. We still have most veg, carrots and parsnips are running low, sprouts... not so much. There's a fresh batch of chipolatas being made as we speak, there's more streaky bacon, plenty of sausage meat and stuffing mixes. We got beef mince, diced, steaks, and roasts if you are still looking.
There's still a cider cured gammon and a smoked gammon in the fridge.
Hot chocolate bombs available but disappearing fast already!
Delivery this morning from Three Little Bakers with morning rolls, bread, croissants and butteries.
Come and see us this morning!
We've got a spare turkey if anyone is still looking. Also have spare rib roasts, they'll be in the shop tomorrow so message if you want one kept aside.
We have some cider cured gammons from Louise's Farm Kitchen and loads of bacon from them too!
Loads of sausage meat and stuffing mixes made today.
Check out our 'stories' - I'm going to post some pictures of some of what we have available tomorrow!
Can anyone guess what we are busy making for the shop this Friday and Saturday?!
💥The Christmas food giveaway is finished, and we have a winner...
Suzanne Bebbington, please message us and we can arrange collection of your prize💥
If your coming to the shop on Friday, you will be able to try some samples of Raasay Gin and Whisky courtesy of Michelle at Drink Me Events. There will be a chance to buy either and some gift sets as well.
Remember we open Friday 10-8 and Saturday 9-12. There will be veg, chipolata, streaky bacon, sausage meat stuffing including sage and onion and chestnut mixes. Christmas dinner essentials including cranberry sauce, bread sauce, beef dripping and more. Local food hampers, and lots of food gifts to fill your own hamper.
I'm getting a lot of messages asking when the shop is open again before Christmas. So please feel free to share this post so as many people see it as possible.
We will be open Friday 23rd 10am-8pm, and Saturday 24th 9am-12.
If you have ordered a turkey or beef, this is the time to collect.
The shop will be open for everyone and full with veg and everything else we have to offer. There is no veg ordering this year. I'm confident there will be enough to last both days... but I'll keep the situation updated.
We will also have our local food hampers, plenty of other Christmas essentials including Dog Falls beers, MXYD cocktails, Rose Cottage Country Kitchen cranberry sauce, bread sauce, beef dripping, roast potato seasonings, and of course we will have plenty of our chipolatas, streaky bacon and sausage meat stuffing. Eggs, cheese, bacon, bread, rolls, charcuterie, smoked salmon, coffee...
Keep an eye out this week for a little surprise sampling as well... 🥃 🥂
OK- at the moment we plan to be open tomorrow, the road is OK, and will hopefully remain that way for tomorrow! The farm road itself is still slippy so if your on foot, please be careful.
Theres a lot of beef for tomorrow, mince, diced, burgers, topside, sirloin/ribeyes/rump/fillet/denver steaks! Come in tomorrow and we can do some deals on everything - put your own packs together. Mince will be 3 for 2 on 500g packs. Still some lamb in the fridge, including barnsley chops, racks and rolled shoulder as well.
Fresh fish and Cullen Skink from Redshank.
Veg from Achnagairn, potatoes, carrots, parsnips, sprouts and more. No leeks or turnips this week, they are frozen in the ground 🙈
If your still looking for a stocking filler for the beer fan in your life, check out this year's Christmas offering from Dog Falls. Quercus 22 is now available in the shop. Plenty other beers from Dog Falls also available if you want to put together a collection for someone.
I'm off to have a can of it right now.
9-4 tomorrow 🤞
Our hamper bags are back for Christmas and will be available next Saturday and on the 23rd/24th.
Included this year in one of our own printed (yes I ironed on all the print 🙄) bags, will be Inverness Coffee Christmas Roast, Macleans festive shortbread, Hebridean oatcakes, connage cheese, Rose Cottage Country Kitchen clootie and Christmas chutney, Bogrow Farm charcuterie, a jar of Loch Ness Honey, and not in the picture yet, Orkney Marshmallow hot chocolate and our own homemade tablet.
These are priced at £40. A perfect gift for someone and a good selection of some of our suppliers.
You can add to these hampers in the shop, including Dog Falls beer, MYXD cocktails or anything else from the shelves. You could also add steaks etc from the fridge on the day if you like.
Alternatively the bags themselves will be available to buy in the shop and you can fill them with anything you like.
Gift vouchers are also available this weekend.
I'm conscious that the vacuum packing makes things look a bit crap, so here's a few pictures before packing. If you are after some lamb, this will be the last before January. We've got lamb mince, barnsley chops, leg steaks and the lamb, rosemary and garlic sausages that were a big hit the last time. If you are looking for something different for Christmas, we've got leg joints or racks of lamb, a perfect centre piece for 2 people.
Also in the fridge is beef mince, stew, silverside and beef sausages and ribeye steaks.
And of course there's another batch of chipolatas and packs of streaky bacon 🥓
Open tomorrow from 9am to 4pm.
It's time for our Christmas food giveaway!
The prize will include one of our own 28 day matured rump roasts, local Achnagairn veg including potatoes, carrots, parsnips and sprouts and even a jar of our own heather honey!
All you need to do is like this post, our page, and tag some friends in the comments! The winner will be picked at random on the 20th of December, and the prize will be for collection on the 23rd.
Remember the shop will be open this Saturday (10th), and the 17th, then from 10am until 8pm on Friday 23rd and 9-12 on the 24th. We will have loads of veg, chipolatas, streaky bacon and sausage meat mixes.
(Please be aware of any scammers who will likely try and get in touch with people about this post. We WILL NOT contact the winner until the 20th of December.)
Anymore veg box orders for this Saturday please. Boxes this week will include leeks and parsnips in place of cauliflowers and beetroot (both still available, just ask if you want either swapped back in) £8/box. Local, seasonal, Achnagairn veg.
Fridge is full for tomorrow. We've got LOADS of our chipolatas, with packs of streaky bacon as well. There's also more packs of sausage meat so stock up your freezers for Christmas. There's normal pork sausages, beef burgers, mince, diced beef, topside, some brisket and steaks.
Also this week we have some pork in stock. Pork loin on the bone, leg and shoulder roasting joints, pork steaks and pork belly slices. Again if your after a pork joint for Christmas time, grab one now!
We are keeping the 20% of all frozen stock just now, there's pork and apple burgers, beef sausages, lorne, mince and a few other bits.
We've got fresh haddock and Cullen Skink in again as well as the sauces from The Redshank
Open from 9am tomorrow.
Just a little reminder of our opening hours etc for Christmas. We will be open as normal, 9am-4pm, on the 3rd, 10th and 17th. We will then be open on Friday the 23rd, from 10am until 8pm and Saturday 24th, 9-12. If you have ordered a turkey or beef, this will be available for collection on the 23rd or 24th. If you cannot manage these days please get in touch and we can organise something else.
Veg boxes will continue up to the 17th, but will NOT be available on the 23rd/24th. The veg rack will be fully stocked and available for everyone.
We cannot take any more orders for rib roasts or fillet but still have availability for sirloin steaks/roasts or rump steaks/roasts. Turkeys still available to order.
💥Keep an eye out next week for a Christmas food GIVEAWAY💥
Veg box orders for this week please. £8/box, seasonal veg from Achnagairn Farm.
Open today from 9am. In the fridge this week we have beef mince, diced beef for stews, silverside and sirloin steaks! Also pork sausages, pork mince and pork and apple burgers.
We've got Inside Line, Resinate and KW back in stock from Dog Falls, and we've got loads of eggs from Lower Mill of Tynet Farm. Definitely not rationed.
💥This week there's 20% OFF everything in the freezer. There's some steaks, lamb/pork burgers, mince, lorne, and a few bits of lamb left in there, have a look and see. I'd like to get it clear before the end of the year to defrost it!💥
There's fresh baked scones, sausage rolls and cakes, bakery goods, bacon, cheese, milk, coffee, jams and more.
And of course the veg rack is full with Achnagairn veg.
If your still thinking about a turkey for Christmas, please get in touch, they will be gone soon! These are locally produced from Black Isle Turkeys. Small (12-14lb), Medium (14-16lb) and Large (16lb+). Price will be £5.20/lb this year.
Also we have some spaces for Christmas wreath making with Blooming Lovely Flowers on the 29th or 30th next week, £48, get in touch ASAP to book in.
*Sold*
We have availability this week for tomahawk steaks, or rib roasts. Can be a 2 or 3 rib roast, or up to 3 tomahawks. (There could be a 2 rib roast and 1 tomahawk if needed). If your looking to put something in freezer for Christmas, get in quick to book this before it gets cut up in butchery this week. £25/kg. Approximately 1kg per rib. Could also be off the bone rib roast at £32/kg.
We've got some beef bones in the fridge today, free of charge. Great for making soup or for your dog!
Today in the shop we have a restock of Ord Oak smoked salmon pate and hot smoked salmon pieces. Also more Cullen Skink and fresh haddock from the guys at The Redshank.
We've got a batch of Venison and juniper burgers made using wild venison from our farm! There is also plenty of diced beef and other cuts for slow cooking and stews, perfect for the colder days now. Loads of beef sausages, lorne and mince. Steaks this week are ribeyes with a few fillets as well. Good deals on a few fresh sirloins in the fridge too.
Homemade sausages rolls and scones are being made as we speak, will still be warm when we open!
Any more veg box orders for this week please! £8/box, seasonal veg from Achnagairn Farm.
Anyone else noticed this?
Egg shelf in Buckie Tesco looking rather bare!
This seems to be a common sight across the country due to an egg shortage. Although Avian Influenza has put some pressure on supply, there is a bigger issue. Over 80% of the cost of producing eggs is linked to the cost of feeding the hen in the first place. As a result of war in Ukraine, global shortages of grain have pushed prices up and this has directly affected poultry farmers. Supermarkets collectively resisted putting prices up to cover the extra cost of production farmers were facing stating they were looking after their customers' interest by keeping prices low. Farmers have been faced with losing money on every egg they produce so understandably many have stopped or reduced the numbers of hens kept. The results are that the UK is now sitting 8 million birds below capacity and now the supermarkets have empty shelves.
Never a better time to support your local farmer and buy direct.
Seen as everyone bought chipolatas yesterday, there's normal pork sausages left today! So some packs available this afternoon...
Pack 1 £28
4 rump steaks
Pack of pork sausages
4 lamb and mint burgers
500g beef mince
Pack 2 £16
2x 500g beef mince
Pack of pork sausages
4 lamb and mint burgers
Pick up from shop this afternoon.
*SOLD
We've got 2 spare £8 veg boxes this week, available to pick up tonight from shop.
I've discovered this week that Craig, our butcher, loves making chipolatas 👀 We've been experimenting with Christmas coming up, and he's made loads! If you are looking to get some in the freezer, or if you just want to try them, grab some tomorrow and let us know what you think. There's a few packs of streaky bacon in the fridge as well!
Also this week we have sirloin, rump and fillet steaks. Pork sausages, lamb and mint burgers and caramelised red onion beef burgers.
Fresh haddock, Cullen Skink and sauces from The guys at The Redshank.
Also this week we have had a refill of charcuterie from Bogrow Farm, including Nduja.
Plenty of veg from Achnagairn, organic eggs from Lower Mill of Tynet, bacon, black pudding, coffee, honey, beer, jams, bakery goods...
Open 9am until 4pm tomorrow.
Christmas Wreath Workshops! 🎄🎅🎁🎀
We are SO excited to be able to offer Christmas wreath workshops again this year with the fab Blooming Lovely Flowers!
Everything will be provided for you to design and make your very own bespoke Christmas door wreath, whether your style is rustic charm or Christmas bling! Plus, to really get you in the festive spirit there will bubbly (or non-alcohol drinks) and nibbles provided!
Dates and times are listed below: -
Tuesday 29th November - 18.30pm-20.30pm
Wednesday 30th November - 18.30pm-20.30pm
Thursday 1st December - 18.30pm-20.30pm
Price is £48pp.
For more information and to book please message.
Any more veg box orders for this week in by tonight please. £8/box
We have some packs available to collect tomorrow (Tuesday) evening from the shop.
PACK 1 £40 (Only 1 available) *SOLD
Rack of lamb
2 sirloin steaks
500g beef mince
2 lamb shanks
Small silverside roast
PACK 2 £28 (1 available)
2x 500g beef mince
4 beef burgers
4 pork and apple burgers
1kg silverside roast
PACK 3 £16
4x 500g beef mince
Also some lamb leg roast cuts available if you are looking to put something in freezer for Christmas. Just send us a message to organise.
Photos from Haim & Awa's post
List of what's fresh in the fridge for tomorrow...
BEEF
Mince
Diced
Silverside
Brisket
Shoulder
Braising steaks
Ribeye steaks
Sirloin steaks
Denver steaks
Sausages
Burgers
More mince
LAMB
Mince
Diced
Leg steaks
Barnsley chops
Racks
Shoulders
Legs
Shanks
Lamb, rosemary and garlic sausages (picture)
More mince
Pork and apple burgers
There's a lot! Remember we open tomorrow at 9 but close at 4pm!
If your following the stories for the last couple days, here's a bit more detail 👇
Kelly and Adam are a couple from Inverness who have built up a following on Instagram with their food adventures. This week they are using our meat and a veg box to create a local food menu. I put some lamb mince in their pack as I'd love more people to see how versatile and easy to use it is, and this looks amazing! Check out their social media pages under 'haimanawa' for today's and the rest of the weeks recipes.
Remember to get your veg box orders in for this weekend by Wednesday evening 👍
The meat packs are now all sold for tomorrow. We still have plenty of other things in the fridge however, including mince, diced, braising steaks, caramelised red onion beef burgers, beef sausages, denver steaks, fillet steaks, ribeye steaks and roasts.
There's some great bargains on the top two shelves of beef. Shorter use by date but I'd rather sell it fresh so have reduced the prices, including all the 500g packs of mince down to £4.50. Perfect if your just looking to stock up your freezer. There's also some sirloin steaks, roasts, diced beef and rolled pork shoulders.
We have more haddock and sauces from The Redshank right up on the top shelf.
Freezer this week has pork and sweet chilli burgers, rump steaks, beef short ribs, small amount of lamb and venison and smoked salmon.
The last Saturday of being open from 9am until 5pm before we reduce it to 4pm next weekend.
Loads of our beef going through the butchery unit today for the shop on Saturday. Loads of mince, diced and roasts this week. We've got a family pack this week, with a bit of everything, and a smaller pack as well.
Family pack £25
2x 500g beef mince
1x 500g diced beef
4 caramelised red onion beef burgers
Pack of beef sausages
Block of lorne
Add a topside/silverside/brisket joint to make it £36.
Pack 2 - £22
500g beef mince
500g diced beef
2 rump steaks
Beef sausages or lorne
Add topside/silverside/brisket to make it £33.
Message us to book a pack for Saturday. There is no guarantee if you arrive at the shop on Saturday that these will be available so please order ahead!
*somebody sent me this picture before of their roast with some of our beef, but I can't remember who! But it looks good so I'm using it again!
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We have some fresh meat packs available for collection this afternoon from the shop. Pack 1 £50 (2 available) 2x 500g beef mince 500g lamb mince Topside Roasting Joint 4 LARGE slices of lorne Pack of pork sausages 4 Rump steaks Pack 2 £45 (2 available) 500g lamb mince Rack of lamb Lamb chops Rolled shoulder of lamb 4 Lamb and mint burgers Message us to order one!
We took a few cows in this week as they are about to start calving. A couple of them beat us to it if you saw the story today! Delighted that we have more venison for the shop on Saturday from right here on our farm. Haunch roasts, diced and loins. Also another batch of venison and juniper burgers. There will also be loads of roast beef, topside and silverside. Perfect to go with the Achnagairn veg as we head into autumn and cooler weather. We've got a deal on some beef - 1kg of mince and 1kg of diced for £18. This is fresh but will need to be used or frozen by Sunday. Available to pick up on Saturday.
All our burgers are hand pressed in our butchery unit on the farm 👇 using our own beef, lamb, venison or local pork. We have 2 packs available to collect from the farm, fresh, tonight or tomorrow - 1.2kg Silverside roast 1kg beef mince 1kg diced beef Pack of 4 beef burgers Pack of pork sausages Pack of beef sausages Block of beef lorne Total value of all individually is over £57, these packs are available for £50. Message us to book one. *BOTH PACKS SOLD*
The most high pressure job on the farm, making sure it lands in the trailer! We started our harvest yesterday, getting a good 40 acre cut. This is quite early, mainly due to the dry weather. This barley is destined for Simpsons Malt Limited if it passes the tests required, the main one being nitrogen levels. From there it will head out to distilleries across Scotland. The straw is what we will use for bedding the cattle over the winter. In the shop tomorrow we have plenty of BBQ goods, including beef burgers, pork and apple burgers, beef sausages, frozen lamb and mint burgers and pork sausages. If you would like any kept aside please send us a message. Hopefully the sun comes back out for the weekend!
As well as the first lamb of the season for the shop on Saturday, we also have all these fantastic steaks. All from our own farm, hung for over 28 days and butchered right here. Ribeyes, rumps, sirloins and fillets. Anyone else's idea of heaven right here 👇🙋♂️
This years turnips are through the ground. In a different place this year, as a break crop in a field at Allanfearn where we grow the malting barley. Break crops are used to try and save us growing the same crop year after year. Last year we had one field in forage rape/kale which was then fed to 40 cows during the winter. This year the turnips will again be used as feed for sheep over winter, as well as for the shop! This highlights the benefit of being a mixed farm with livestock and arable. Growing the same crop year after year allows pests and disease to build up. Being able to grow forage crops and putting some fields into grass for grazing/silage lets us rotate crops in fields. In return the dung from the animals has the obvious benefits to the soil, increasing the organic matter and water retaining ability of it. This is particularly important at Allanfearn where the soil is very sandy and rain disappears very quickly during the summer. One of the many reasons livestock are important to our food chain security.
Ever wonder what happens to the barley after the distilleries are finished with it in the whisky making process? Probably not... but here it is! This is what we call draff, and we are taking 200 tonnes in in the next few days to get stored under the silage, to eventually get fed to the cows during the winter. Recycling at its finest. Grown on farms in Scotland, malted in places like the malting facility down in the Longman in Inverness, sold to distilleries then back to farms.
Who needs a dog when you have a Jellybean to play with!
Donald has always had an interest in lambing the sheep, can't keep him away from them this year. Did this one all by himself apart from me checking halfway through to make sure it was all coming the right way.
#lambing2022 #sheep
Second lamb just out and the first one has already found the source of milk 🥛
10am which means it's beer o'clock. Stocked up for today's weather with Dog Falls Brewing Co beers. Everything you need for a BBQ - rolls, burgers, sausages, steaks, sauces and beers. Do it this weekend before it snows 👀
Can you tell I found the slow motion function on my new phone? Just seconds old this one.
Jellybean - one week old and loving running around playing games!
Heifers (first time calvers) coming in from the field on Friday morning just before the snow. In absolutely no rush at all. These will be calving from the middle of March so we're bringing them inside now to keep a closer eye on them, along with another 100 cows. It would be ideal to keep them outside all year round, but the mess it would make of the fields at this time of year would be hopeless and require expensive fixes and reseeding when it drys up. Hopefully by the time they start calving, the weather will have improved and we can get them out with their calves as soon as possible.
What a fantastic day again in the shop, one of the busiest days we've ever had! We sold an amazing 55 turnips, so we will be donating £55 to The Archie Foundation Highland. Thanks to everyone who came up. There's still some haggis left, there's plenty of potatoes and I can get more turnips from the field, so if anyone would like a delivery in Inverness tomorrow or Monday evening, send us a message. There is a limited amount of our beef left - mince, diced or roasts, which can be added as well.
Ever wonder how long breeding pedigree cattle takes? Well here goes anyway! We bought a new bull in October, he'll meet the cows at the start of December, his first calves will be born next September/October, and if the bulls are good enough to sell for breeding it'll be February 2024 before we have the first ones to sell! Any females we keep off him won't have their first calves with us until Spring 2025! It's a bit of a waiting game, but it's worth it for this moment.
Kids DIY advent calendars for sale! Kids can make, decorate and wrap their very own unique chocolate advent calendar using a festive silicone mould, their pick of white or milk chocolate, sprinkles, marshmallows and sweeties! Lots of fun and guaranteed to get the kids (and you!) into the Christmas spirit!
Last weekend, Calum took one of our older tractors to a ploughing match in Easter Ross. This is where local ploughing enthusiasts compete to see who is the best. It is very technical, lots of marker posts and measuring tapes are involved! He finished a very respectable 4th out of a big entry of ploughs. This tractor, a John Deere 3350, is older than Calum(by a good few years) and started its life at Balloch Farm, our neighbour at Allanfearn, in 1991. It came to us a few years later and is still used every winter on a machine to bed our cows with straw when they are inside. Calum has put a lot of effort into making it look the part again and polishing it. Before it goes back to work for the winter, it will be parked at the shop this Saturday. If anyone has any tractor daft kids (big or small 👀), please come along for a look and a seat/photo in it. #johndeere #ploughing #inverness #farmshop #supportlocal #shoplocal
Remember we are back to the usual Saturday opening this weekend. All the usual veg from Achnagairn Farm including potatoes, carrots, cauliflowers, cabbages, parsnips, beetroot, broccoli, leeks and brussel sprouts. Everything for a Sunday roast or just your weekly vegetable shop. There will be fresh, local pork in the fridge, and the freezer is full of our own beef and lamb, including mince and diced beef and lamb. Roasts, steaks, sausages and burgers. Restocked with Black Isle Biltong, joining Orkney Marshmallows and Bogrow Farm products on the table. With Dog Falls beer 🍺 and local cheese, if your planning an evening entertaining friends why not go for food with a local theme.
In the shop this Saturday, fresh beef AND lamb! All born and raised on our farm. Roasts, steaks, mince, sausages, burgers, diced. Come and see what we have available. Local, sustainable beef and lamb, direct from the producer. There will also be homemade, Belgium chocolate, hot chocolate bombs with a Halloween theme! Veg rack will be full again from Achnagairn Farm. Cauliflowers, leeks, broccoli, potatoes carrots, beetroot, romanesques, parsnips and cabbages. Turnips from our own field as well. Full range of local Dog Falls Brewing Co beers back in stock, including this new, autumnal, Bramble On can! Come check us out and see our other local goods, Saturday 9-5. #invernessfarmshop #supportlocal #eatlocal #localbeef #locallamb #inverness
Loads of local veg in stock this morning from Achnagairn. Local pork in the fridge, some Murdoch butchers family steak pies, local cheese and Stornoway Black pudding. Organic free range eggs. Small amount of our own lamb in the freezer including lamb racks, diced lamb and legs. Local beers, jams, honey, bread, coffee, charcuterie and home baking. Open today at 9am until 5.
Still plenty of veg left for the afternoon shift. Open until 5.
And here's the second video, taken 2 days after the grass was cut. The rake at the start is putting 30ft of grass into one row for the forager. The forager and trailers belong to Mill 'n' Mix Ltd who spend the summer going around farms in the area lifting silage. Then it is all pushed into the pit by their massive loader and packed down before being cover until the winter. The fields are already green again and growing rapidly in the warm wet conditions we have just now. We will cut them again to make more baled silage before September, then whatever grows after that will be grazed by sheep or cows.
Andy was back with his camera and drone when we were making silage here a couple of weeks ago. The first video is Calum mowing the grass, 20 foot at a time with the front and back mower. You can see the silage pit in the background at the start, with some draff in it. This is the distillery by-product that we store under the grass/silage until the winter time when it is mixed with the silage and fed to the cows. Second video of forager to follow.
Surrounded
Looks the the sun is sticking with us for the weekend again, and we will have another stock of bbq meats from Forbes Farm Fresh in the fridge. We've still got our own beef and lamb in the freezer, so remember if your after some burgers or sausages for Saturday night, get in early! Still a few roasting joints, plenty mince, diced and lorne beef. Lamb legs, shoulders, diced, racks and shanks available too. Loads of Scottish veg starting to come in now including cauliflowers, asparagus and of course Scottish strawberries. Loads of Jersey Royal new potatoes as well. 💥We also have another freezer pack available to pick up this Saturday - 3x 500g beef mince 1x 500g diced beef 1x pack of 2 rump steaks 1x large lorne block All for just £30 This is beef from our own farm, vacuum packed and frozen.💥 Saturday 9-5.
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