From making bread, cheese and sausages to wine and preserves we have caught fish, collected mussels and reared our own chickens and turkys for the table. Beekeeping is our latest venture and is fantastic fun.
Follow our journey and enjoy the adventure!
Our journey over the last couple of years has been a real adventure, from keeping the hens and turkeys to catching fish and learning to preserve a variety of foods. Our neighbours have acted as quality control kindly sampling our produce, which has included Elderflower Champagne, smoked salmon, sausages and lately honey. We hatched 15 Cornish Giant chickens back in Feb they are now in the freezer ,weights ranged between 6- 8 lbs a big much improvement on last year.
The bees have been a real challenge we lost one hive in august swarming even though swarming season should have been over, so now i am trying to requeen this collony, Cheese making will start again in October as soon as it is cold enough to mature the cheese in the workshop.
Sausage making is going well the beef ale and herb and beef and garlic are great. We will be going mussel collecting again in September, as you should only collect them if there is an R in the month. Elderflower champagne is really worth making but very difficult to keep in the bottle, lively on opening too if not chilled properly! We dug up the front garden this year and planted potatoes and broad beans which have all done well the main crop potatos are now dug and stored. In May we went fishing for mackerel early morning on a very high tide and landed 60 lbs + of fish, we have smoked them, made roll mops and frozen the rest which we will turn into fish cakes, pasties and curry, which if somewhat unusual, is great. We are still getting to grips with fishing from the boat.
All our hens and eggs for hatching have been supplied by Senara at Hendra Farm in Cornwall click on the link below to view her website
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