Events & News

Mothering Sunday Lunch Menu
Sittings at 12pm and 1.45pm

Chefs Soup of the moment with Crusty Bread + Butter
Smoked Salmon Pate with Toasted Sourdough + Pickled Cucumber
Trickle Goat’s Cheese + Red Onion Tartlet with Chargrilled Courgettes + Walnut Oil
Ham Hock And Parsley Terrine With Piccalilli + Melba Toast
Charcuterie Platter With Sunshine Olives And Garlic Bread
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Roast Topside of Organic Neston Park Beef with Horseradish Cream + Yorkshire Pudding
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Roast Free Range Chicken Breast with Stuffing
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Roast Neston Park Organic Leg of Lamb With Yorkshire Pudding And Mint Sauce
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All Served with Roast Vegetables, Roast Potatoes, Seasonal Vegetables and Red Wine Gravy
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Open Filled Lasagne with Asparagus, Broad Beans, Peas and Tarragon
Butter Sauce
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Grilled Cod Steak Served With Crushed New Potatoes, Spinach + Prawns with Hollandaise Sauce
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Warm Pecan + Honey Tart with Clotted Cream
Iced Honeycomb Parfait with Strawberry Sauce
Bread and Butter Pudding made with Pain au Chocolate
Banoffee Pie With Chocolate Sauce
Lemon And Lime Cheesecake With Raspberry Compote
Spiced Apple & Apricot Crumble with Marshfield Vanilla Ice Cream
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2 COURSES £16.95 per person
3 COURSES £21.95 per person
Less £5.00 for children

After last year’s very successful “Fuller’s Beer Tasting Evening” we thought it would be rude not to do another!! The Head Brewer from Chiswick (John Keeling) will be hosting the evening with a very informative tasting of some of their best beers! Thursday March 22nd – 7pm £20.00 per person to include food and beer. Tickets available in the shop now. Limited numbers.

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY

Big screen version of John Le Carre’s 1974 espionage classic. Gary Olman excels as George Smiley. Colin Firth, John Hurst, Ciaran Hinds and Toby Jones also star. Directed by Swedish Toman Alfredson (who came to recognition with the wonderfully creative Let the Right One In. Seedy, grimy, menacing – gripping.

£5.00 per person – tickets available from Shop Monday 13th. Hot Dogs & Wine & Beer available to buy on the night!

February 2012

February on the farm is largely taken up with routine tasks. The cattle are nearly all inside and consequently most of the day is taken up with feeding, bedding and tending to their needs. It makes us feel like chamber persons and waiters at a posh hotel.

However sometime is spent muck spreading while the ground is frozen dry and hard. As organic farmers the application and incorporating of organic matter to build up fertility before sowing spring barley is very important. The muck is produced by the cows that ate the grass last year mixed with straw grown for malting barley, composted and then put back into the soil – the ultimate recycling scheme.

On the subject of organics – Did you see Countryfile on T.V. Recently? Research by Newcastle University has shown that organic milk really is better for us – the fat contains much higher levels of vitamins and minerals, plus extra Omega 3 therefore by my reckoning organic Jersey milk with its even higher fat and protein content must really be a “Super Food”- So Jersey girls get busy and producing more for that nice Mr. Bowles at Ivy House Farm.

As mentioned last month we have renewed our vows to continue with various environmental projects here at Neston in addition to just been organic farmers. There is at the moment a great deal of debate going on regarding E.U. funding for agriculture. The proposals being put forward are that the taxpayer will expect any funding to farmers to include a “greening element” possibly by insisting that farmers actually remove up to 7% of their land from production on to put into the environmental schemes to qualify for payment. However, it has been recognised that organic farming already contributes to much to the environment with our crop rotations recycling of nutrients, bio diversity for wildlife etc that we may not be expected to do more in return for support.

The moral of this story is that organic farming really can deliver benefits which are now been recognised, not just for providing chemical free food but by showing others that by adopting some of our methods we really can make a difference. By purchasing organic food you are supporting the efforts of organic farmers, who have to rely mostly on their own initiatives rather than having large multinational companies to lobby on their behalf.

So organic food really is good value for the taxpayer as well as good for the consumer, the cows and the environment.

Our next farm newsletter will be available from the 1st March 2012

Sandy Macfarlane (Farm Manager)

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