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 Well if you are a small holder in my local Norfolk or surrounding counties, take care. SBV - a disease thought to have made its way over inside midges blown across the channel - has been causing havoc with the sheep farming community and has the potential to spread to other animals. SBV or the Schmallenberg virus is responsible for lambs being still born or with a defect causing them to...

This Sunday, 19th June, the River Cottage: Meat episode will screen on Channel 4. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has always passionate about sustainable, humane, and hand-reared meat, and lots of Landsharers share Hugh’s passion, and are now rearing their own animals on Landshared land.  Moving into animal husbandry can be a daunting task. Here are some of the best blogs for information,...

The plan was, that from Wednesday to Friday lunchtime, twelve Eigg islanders would learn to butcher a sheep and a pig, to make cuts of meat that you could not only recognise, but eat, and make sausages! MEAT MARATHON Faced with six sheep carcasses and a pig laid out in our deliberately chilled village hall, this training course suddenly felt like a marathon.  QUALITY TIME The lambs...

Burns Night! 25th January, every year; when a large proportion of Scotland (and tens of thousands of ex-pat and would-be Scots worldwide) sit down to a dinner which sounds anything but tasty. Haggie, neeps and tatties. Tatties Tattie - potatoes (for those of you outwith Burns' mother country) - mashed and lots of them. Nadine, Rooster or Saxon varieties make lovely fluffy mash. Add...