Updated: 2 December 2008
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Belted Galloway Beef
Please consider a forward order to ensure you get some - of what I am increasingly being told is the regions best beef.
An eighth of Belted galloway Beef - available again in March 2009
Michael's Gourmet Pack - available again in March 2009
Elizabeth's Slow Pack - available again in March 2009
Creative Pack - available again in March 2009
Belted Galloway Supreme Mince - available now
Belted Galloway Beef Sausages - available now
Wessex Saddle Back Pork
Our pork is usually sold out months in advance, so please consider a forward order, I told it's definitely worth the wait. The November pork packs are all sold, sorry. There will be a little more pork in late January 2009 and then more in March.
Wessex Saddleback Pork Pack 10kg - available Sunday 7 December (all sold)
Wessex Saddleback Pork Pack 5kg - available Sunday 7 December (all sold)
W/S Pork mince - available now
W/S Pork sausages - available now
More rave reviews are coming in about our pork, like "Your pork is the best we've had in this country, and we have lived here for 45 years." ex UK residents and pork lovers.
Rare Breed Hampshire Down Lamb (seasonally available only)
1/4 Hampshire Down lamb - available February 2009
1/2 Hampshire Down lamb - available February 2009
"Your lamb is sensational." Wade from a fat lamb producing family in Victoria.
OFFAL
Beef - heart, tongue, kidney, liver, cheek, ox-tail and cheeks.
Pork - heads, ears, tails, trotters, kidney and liver.
Lamb - heart, kidney and liver.
All priced at $10 per kg. Please send an email for availability. Our offal now sells very quickly, so please consider forward ordering or choice may be limited.
Very Fresh Free Ranged on Pasture Eggs.
Usually available year round, BUT to ensure you get some please consider a standing order - many of our market regulars have one, some for as many as 4 dozen eggs - I have no idea what an individual does with four dozen eggs every week!
Anyway, we are at the limit of production for eggs, we are a micro producer after all is said and done. We will be buying in some day old Australorp chicks, but they won't be laying until spring.
Raw and Local Honey
No honey is available at the moment as we await the trees to flower. Unfortunately due to the extended dry period, our trees have not flowered this autumn, so we have closed down the hives for wintering without an extraction. This means no honey from us until mid spring :-( That said all our gums are budding up: yellow box, red stringy bark, apple box, peppermint, manifera, snow, et cetera, so it should be an interesting spring with lots of honeys :-)
Price?
We believe that good and clean food should be available to all at a fair price; fair to us and fair to you. To remain in the business of producing unique and superior "good clean and fair food", we must also make a profit. That said, when thinking about price please know two things; firstly our prices contain all of the costs of production, so nothing is externalised - socially, environmentally, ethically or financially. Secondly; the nearest equivalent of our meats are selling for at least double, and up to four times the price in Sydney and Melbourne - if you can get it! And lastly, price should never be confused with value.
Payment? Orders are paid for by cash, cheque or (once we know you) electronic funds transfer after the order is picked up or delivered.
Please Consider........
We strongly recommended you consider forward ordering any of the meat packs to avoid disappointment. These 'real taste heritage meats' are always in demand, and as a micro producer we simply can't supply everyone. So to be fair we sell on a first come first served basis.
What can't be forward ordered?
Belted Galloway 2-up and Creative packs cannot be forward ordered as they are 'overs', and we never really know when we will have overs.
Pork mince and sausages.
Beef mince and sausages.
Having said that if you have a special function and need 600 sausages, send me an email. We do accept orders and supply our great sausages in bulk from time to time. Allsun Farm at Gundaroo had an 'organic fair' open garden in early November and some 400 our sausages were cooked and sold there to much acclaim.
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