A Merry Christmas To You All…
All the team at Top Meadow Farm send you our very best wishes for the festive season. We have now got all the turkeys and geese ready to be delivered to our customers. The hams and beef joints are hung…
Year: 2020
Birds Spotted…
We pride ourselves on creating good habitats for birds and other wild creatures on our organic farms. We leave hedgerows to grow longer to provide nesting sites, avoid using pesticides and chemicals, retain our traditional meadows, install bird boxes to…
A Traditional Christmas Dinner?
So, what is it to be? A turkey? A goose? A leg of pork? A ham? Pheasant or venison? A rib of beef on the bone? The choices of delicious meat for that special Christmas dinner are wide and varied…
Kale For The Cattle
Our Red Ruby Devon cattle have been moved onto the fields of kale and rape this week. It has been a mild autumn on the whole and, while it has still been wetter than we might have wanted, the autumn…
What A Hoot!
All of our Top Meadow Farm team are committed to the conservation of wildlife, the countryside and our natural environment. That is why our farms are organic and we try to source the produce for our shop at 9 Butchers…
Which Steak Is The Best Of All?
I guess we all have our favourite steak and we tend to ask for that same cut each time we go to the butchers, whether it is fillet, a sirloin, rib-eye, rump, “bavette” or skirt, or even a giant T-bone…
One up on the Birds…?
This year has seen all the trees and bushes around the farm producing huge numbers of berries and seeds. All the birds are having a real feast! Walking around the farm in late November, Farm Manager, Rob, has taken pictures…
Our Cattle in Winter
The calves have now been weaned from the cows in our main herd. They are now back at Stone Farm spending the next few weeks out in Long Field, one of our dryer fields, eating the grass that is still…
Caribbean Goat Curry
Since we launched sales of our and our partner farmers’ goat meat last month, sales of this delicious and flavoursome meat have gone really well. Our customers tell us that one of their favourite recipes is Caribbean Goat Curry and,…
Colourful Fungi
Foraging may be a natural instinct for all of us, and many have a real fascination for fungi. Our very distant ancestors were, of course, “hunter-gatherers” in ancient times, and, when we ourselves see clusters of field mushrooms in our…