We are now taking Beef box and Share orders for June collection/delivery.
Individual items have now been added to the webshop. If you are putting together an order and don’t see what you would like on the website drop me a line nicola@carrfarm.org
Thank you!
April marked the arrival of the first of our crop of 2025 beltie calves – all doing well so far !
We had a great time at Suffolk Show this year winning the junior heifer class with Waveney Anna, and coming second in the junior bull class with Waveney Andy.
Unfortunately young calf Waveney Bomber was taken poorly at the show and so we took him and his mum Waveney Velvet home early from the show…..we wondered how poorly he really was when he came out of the trailer at 100mph living up to his “Bomber” name!! Anyway both Mum and baby are doing fine at home now.
It was lovely to take Anna and Andy in the Grand Parade and meet up with friends and customers at the show….!
We are now taking orders for our Pasture for Life Beltie Beef for collection from the farm, local delivery or overnight courier from the beginning of June, order from our online shop.
We are also attending the Beccles Food Festival Saturday May 25th 2024, where we will have beltie beef bresaola and beef fresh from the butchers available to buy on the day – see you there!!
Thank you!
We are celebrating Great British Beef Week from the 23rd to the 30th April 2023.
We have been on Kayleigh Poacher’s morning show on Radio Norfolk with the cows (14/04/23 38 minutes in) talking about how we farm and of course our special cattle. Sarah Chambers at Archant also wrote an article for the Eastern Daily Press and East Anglian Daily Times about the farm, the belted galloways and conservation grazing with Suffolk Wildlife Trust.
Lovely to see the first calves of 2023 arriving – this years letter is “A” so if you have any name suggestions please let us know! So far we have 3 boys and 7 girls, 6 black and white calves and 4 dun and white. The wet weather is making the grass grow but it will be nice to see a bit more sunshine!
Photos below courtesy of Caroline Tillet Photography
We’ve had a busy few weeks with the belties at the Shows, it has been great to meet so many of our supporters, followers and customers at these events.
We had the full team at the Royal Norfolk where they hold classes specifically for Belted Galloways and there was a great entry of over 30 animals. Our senior heifer Vanessa won her class, and Cow with calf; Zoe and Wizard won their class. Both animals went on to be Female and reserve female champion and Vanessa was Reserve overall Best of Breed Champion so pretty happy with that, as an added bonus Princess Anne came into the ring for the final judging.
Down at the Kent County Show we participated in the Native Breed Classes, where our yearling heifer Velvet won her class, Vanessa won the senior class, they both won the pairs and Vanessa was overall Champion. It’s been 40 years since last visiting the Kent County Show and we much enjoyed our return.
It was great to get back to the shows with the Belties after two years at the South Suffolk Show – the little gang did us proud, were almost on their best behaviour, the sun shone, caught up with lots of folks we haven’t seen for two years and we even came home with a few rosettes into the bargain including a first in the Junior Heifer Class for young Waveney Velvet……..and in a few weeks time we can do it all again
April and May have seen a flurry of new calves being born down on the marshes, here is a selection of beautiful photographs taken down on the marshes of some of this years little ones from friend and photographer Caroline Tillett .
We have used our dun beltie Bull Waveney Harnser so this year so far lots of little dun beauties have been born. 2022 is a “w” year for names so far we have a Willow, Wren, Willy Wonka, Wendi, Wizard, Whisky, Wayne and Wiggle…if you have any suggestions for 2022 calf names let us know!
All of our cattle are Pedigree and registered with the Belted Galloway Cattle Society, “belties” are a native breed, 10 years ago they were on the Rare Breeds Survival Trust watch list, but now thankfully numbers are doing well and the breed is secure for the forseeable.
Our first beltie calf arrived in the lovely sunshine over the Easter weekend – a little dun heifer calf from our oldest cow called Surprise – this year our names will all start with a W – so this little one is called Waveney Willow!
Thanks to Caroline Tillett Photography for the lovely photo.
