Good afternoon,
As February draws to an end and the days are getting longer and warmer, we’re looking forward to the new season beginning. We’ve been calving for the last few weeks, a little earlier than expected with 25 newborns arriving so far. It’s almost a full house as we also have Nuthurst Farm’s sheep tidying our orchard, and the pregnant ewes are a cheerful indication that spring isn’t so far off.
Nev has built our newborns a play pen, which allows them a little respite from protective mums and time to hang out with the other youngsters. They can head back in for feeds and nuzzling whenever they want.
Change has been in the air this month as we’re now working with a new butcher, we are supplying a few new chefs in Sussex, and we have been preparing the seed bed in our four new fields - named Thornybank, Willowbank, Cowfold & Summersby.
We’ve made fast work on these fields, clearing the brambles and scrap, and getting the soil primed and ready to go back into food production after 17 years of being inactive. Prior to that, they’d had their top soil stripped for turf so I expect it will take a bit of time to get things to where we want them but progress is underway.
November’s batch of pressed apple juice has been slowly bubbling away in our steel cider tanks, and has almost finished fermenting and tastes fresh, fruity, with a slight sweet tang and pleasing effervescence - it tastes alive which is exactly what it is. Once it has finished fermenting completely, we will let it mature for at least 6 months before blending and packing into Silly Moo.
We are pleased to have the Moo Tap & Yard Shop back open from 11am - 4pm on 4th March, and all Saturdays from then on. We will be pouring pints and serving Wagyu hot dogs on our first Saturday back - pre-order here.
Take a look at some other events in the pipeline here, with much more to follow soon.
In the meantime, we have plenty of beef in the freezers and steak boxes on offer and are open for collections this Saturday 11am - midday.
We’re looking forward to seeing you soon.