November 2020

Whether you are a regular customer or trying us out for the first time, we want to say a big thank you for purchasing some of our 100% pasture-fed, high welfare beef. You can rest assured that your purchase is helping to restore natural Cotswold grasslands at Sandy Hill farmland in Sherborne, where we are already seeing an increase in diversity of wildflowers and wildlife since we arrived just over 2 years ago.

Last month we gave one of our fields, ‘the Paddock’ a helping hand in rejuvenation when Matt helped to scatter seeds gathered by the Glorious Cotswolds Grassland project run by Cotswolds AONB. Most of the seed came from a wildflower meadow in the Slad valley, plus 2 special buckets from one Jeremy Clarkson who owns a farm nearby! Fingers crossed that we will be seeing more species coming up in this field next spring/summer and beyond, as up until now this is probably our least diverse field (but a beautiful one – an enclosed little valley surrounded by woodland with mini copses of hazel and hawthorn).

Today we had the first frost of the season and had to check water pipes were running for the mob’s trough – all melted soon enough, but it was a reminder of what the winter can bring and there’ll undoubtedly be more thawing of frozen water pipes in the coming months.

Enjoy your beef,

Laura and Matt Elliott