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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...