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.
So a friend sent us their copy of the Smallholder magazine from back in July, they did a nice little piece about the farm, Belties, Christmas Geese, Conservation grazing for Suffolk Wildlife Trust and Pasture for Life….. our red beltie Zoe looks less than impressed at having her photo taken especially as she hadn’t even brushed her hair first!
So if you watched carefully on BBC’s Countryfile on Sunday 23rd August you may have caught sight of our Belties on the Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s Petos Marsh at Carlton near Lowestoft. The belties do alot of important conservation grazing for the Trust at both Oulton and Carlton marshes as well as the Camps Heath Nature Reserve.
The Belties wrap their tongues around vegetation and pull it up in tufts, which creates an uneven sward in terms of length and a tussocky finish. They are good at pushing their way through scrub and creating open areas, in addition to eating longer and coarser grasses, reeds and willow. The low-intensity grazing provided by the cattle are promoting a shift from reed/scrub to grass and herbs, with plants such as wild mint, ragged robin, vetches and rare orchids flourishing on these wetland areas. The dung also provides habitat for invertebrates which results in an increase in butterflies and beetles and a richer habitat for flora and fauna.
We had an amazing time up at the Belted Galloway National Show at the Westmorland County Show in the Lake District this week. It was a lovely show despite the weather and long old haul up from Norfolk and so unexpectedly worthwhile.
Our dun beltie bull Waveney Harnser won his class, Champion bull class and was Best of Breed Champ! (image above courtesy of the Farmers Guardian). As the National Show is held every two years to we get to keep his fine Mochrum Perpetual Challenge Trophy for two years. Harnser’s dun half sister Waveney Coshie came second in her class and the two of them third in the pairs ….her young bull calf Waveney Scooby came last in his class and had a fine old time escaping the cattle lines overnight and checking out the other competitors!
Feeling pretty proud of the Pasture for Life Waveney Beltie gang
Nice little piece on our Belties in the East Anglian Daily Times this week to celebrate the 2019 Great British Beef Week.
We have some limited supplies of our 45 day hung Pasture for Life Certified Beltie Beef available from the farm and are now taking beltie beef box orders for delivery at the end of May!😊😊.
Give us a call or drop us an email.
We were thrilled to feature in EDP 24 farming pages today about Carr Farm becoming the first Pasture for Life certified farm in Norfolk. Cows and us all look a bit bedraggled….they couldn’t have picked a worse day for photos…but the belties enjoyed the extra attention!!
Read more on the EDP’s Website …
The annual TW Gaze Christmas Poultry Show was held yesterday and we’re delighted that one of the our Carr Farm Geese was judged 2016 Champion Goose. See the EDP’s writeup for all the details.
Wishing all our 2016 customers Health and Happiness .
David & Nicola
See the little feature on Carr Farm Geese under “Meet the Producer” in Landlove Magazine’s Christmas edition. The magazine champions seasonal produce each month with their “what to eat now feature”.
We were pleased to be chosen as the 2014 featured goose producer on the British Goose Producers Website.
This afternoon we chatted about keeping geese and the Christmas goose on Leslie Dolphins Radio Suffolk afternoon show. We talked about the growing popularity of Goose at Christmas, the daily routine of keeping geese, cooking Christmas Goose on the big day and a little about life here on Carr Farm.
Listen to my chat with Sarah Lilley (starts at minute 41 of the show)