Good morning,
I hope you knew that signing up to a farm newsletter meant reading a fair amount about the weather. It’s not small talk when your livelihood depends on it. Throw in the fact it has been and will continue to be more extreme and unpredictable, and growing food has been and will continue to be more difficult on the land we’re on, and it becomes an obsession that oscillates between relief and despair. What a ride.
This week, we’re fizzing with relief. The sun is shining and the ground is drying up. We’ve managed to get the first herd of cows with their 6 month old calves outside. We’ve got a couple of old apple trees in blossom. The oak trees on the farm are waking up. The bluebells have carpeted the woodlands in purple. The grass is shiny and fat with that spring starch. The birdsong, more jubilant. The wheat is dead but you can’t have it all.
The yard shop is well stocked with sirloin steaks, fillet steaks, chuck rib eye steaks, tomahawks, roasting joints, short ribs, brisket, rump joints & burgers this week.
Pre-order online or just pop in tomorrow. We’re open 11am-4pm & wagyu burgers are served 12-4pm.
The big news this week is that our Spring market is next Saturday and we have a juicy line-up of growers, makers and bakers joining us.
A few old favourites including High Weald Dairy, Flint Owl Bakery, Flavian’s pork & Curing Rebels charcuterie, plus some new faces like Titch Hill Wine, Spiced Sussex hot sauce, Goldstone Rum & Ringden Farm juice.
3Bros burgers, SoPi Pizza & the Sussex Coffee Truck will be keeping you well fed and caffeinated, and the Silly Moo Cyder tap will be serving tasty tipples.Sussex.
The roaming brass band and DJ Dan are back, and Nev will be setting off on the farm walk at 2pm.
Booking for the next Trenchmore Table supper is now open, and we’re chuffed to announce the winner of the Young Sussex Chef of the year award Dan Ibbotson will be cooking at the farm.
Dan is currently working with Masterchef winner Steve Edwards at etch, so we’re very lucky to be able to peel him away on a Friday evening.
He will be cooking our Sussex Wagyu rib eye as the main dish.
I’ll say no more.
We’re looking forward to…
25th April, 7pm - a spring family bat walk in Cowfold, hosted by Sussex Wildlife Trust’s Huw Morgan. Email to book.
27th April, 5pm - a spring forage walk and a 2 course supper for £10, thanks to Greening Cowfold. Email to book.
A pop-up cinema & supper in Lurgashall - look at the lineup and book here.
5th July, 7pm - a musical romp through the history of land rights, with Silly Moo Cyder on the bar at the Cowfold village hall.