At last the wait is over and Iggy our handreared, bottle fed piglet has now become a mum to 8,though her maternal instincts leave alot to be desired.
Blacky had 12 yesterday and all doing fine, sotty pugs everywhere.
Just waiting now for the combine to cut our wheat and then it will be time to start all over again planting next years crops.Where does the year go??
This summer Lovaton Farm had its most successful year so far at the annual Taste of the West awards. These awards are given “for excellence in quality for appearance, texture, aroma, packaging and of course, taste”.
This summer we won five awards:
Gold for our Dexter-cross-Devon Rib on Bone;
two Silver awards for our Dexter-cross-Devon Sirloin Steaks and our Lleyn Lamb Rolled Loin;
and two Bronze awards for our Gloucester Old Spot Leg of Pork and our Lleyn Lamb Valentine Steak.
You can get you hands on all of these delicious cuts of meat by contacting the farm on 01647 231649.
We have had an amazing month so far, with fantastic guests coming to stay and two local shows (Okehampton and Chagford) with a stand promoting our produce.
We also have a new puppy ‘Midge’, a ‘Westie’ cross ‘Scottie’ terrier who is a complete nutter and has learnt to swim very quickly having fallen into a lake and the garden pond within the first two weeks!
Sadly, we lost one of our favourite sows ‘Molly’, who left us with 10 piglets to feed.
Fortunately, Simon loves this job and you often see him crossing the yard with some warm milk, to top up the Yorkshire pudding tray and other dishes which the piglets drink out of.
We have just weaned the lambs (off the ewes), so have had a few noisy nights but as we are so tired we tend not to notice!
People are always asking us what’s been happening on the farm, and Simon is often out with his camera documenting new arrivals and recording the changing seasons.
Now, you can keep up to date with all the latest news and photos from Lovaton Farm with our new blog.
Every so often we’ll post an update or a photo of farm life, and from time to time, we’ll let you know about special offers and limited produce. Next week, for example, we are going to be cutting pure bred Dexter beef, so drop us a line if you want to get your hands on some of this lovely meat.
We would also love to hear your comments and ideas and if you e-mail recipes or photos of what you did with our meat, we’ll try and include them here as well.
Hope to hear from you soon!
Jane and Simon
Keep up the good work
October 31, 2009 in Customer Comments by Lovaton Farm
We know that Lovaton Meat is delicious and great value, but we still love to hear what you think. This is a recent comment from a discerning admirer:
“Just a quick e-mail to say thankyou for the taster box! We had the steak on Saturday……delicious, and the joint of beef for lunch today… astounding! The meat was so tasty …and the steaks like butter.”
We also tickle the taste-buds of professional tasters. This is what the judges of the Taste of the West awards had to say about our Dexter-cross-Devon Beef Rib on the Bone (as they gave it a GOLD award):
“Good creamy fat and good marbling throughout the meat. Properly chined. Very tender- superbly so! Melt in the mouth and quite remarkable. A cracking piece of beef.”
Why not let us know what you think about Lovaton meat by dropping us an e-mail.