Guided by the principle of never baring the earth and thereby retaining topsoil and moisture, regeneratively-managed farms are generally much more resilient in the face of extreme weather and these farmers don't end up facing the dreadful crises portrayed by the media of farmers forced to shoot skeletal animals and pastures reduced to dust.
Posted on August 06, 2018
Mrs Feather
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Last Sunday, Mr Bone set off on a road trip to visit seven or eight farms starting in the Riverina, up to Orange and back through Mudgee. This is the first report from that trip covering three farms and we'll be posting more as he goes.
Posted on August 01, 2018
Mrs Feather
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We live in a period of unprecedented dissociation from our food sources and we believe it's critically important to 'open up the line of sight between the farm and the consumer'*.
Posted on July 31, 2018
Mrs Feather
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We think the most useful support we can provide is to continue buying their produce.
Posted on July 21, 2018
Mrs Feather
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The lovely Elle was one of 12 students at our last Intro to Whole Pig Butchery class on 14 July. She made a cool little video which gives you a great idea of what our classes are like.
Posted on July 16, 2018
Grant Hilliard
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Each setting on the four long tables at the event was laid with lovely Mud porcelain plates, a menu, a Mud gift wrapped in brown paper and a small, bleached bone from the whole animals we receive at our butchery.
Posted on July 11, 2018
Laura Dalrymple
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The idea of having to endure more than one Christmas a year is enough to send us scuttling under the table with a bottle of Poor Tom's finest and a fist full of valium. But, yesterday was the shortest day of the year and it was icy across Southeastern Australia. It got us thinking about winter feasting...
Posted on June 22, 2018
Laura Dalrymple
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This is a gorgeous video taken by Michael Hicks at Extraordinary Pork last week. He's showing how one of his sows turned her nose up at the hay they provided for her to farrow in (give birth) and sourced her own materials.
Posted on June 08, 2018
Laura Dalrymple
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This is one of those tricky moments when we decide to take a risk and tell you a difficult farming story that goes to the heart of what it means to eat animals. It's got all the elements of a powerful morality tale - a baby, a tragic death, a hero and an inescapable fate. Telling you this story could go either way for us.
Posted on June 01, 2018
Laura Dalrymple
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Feast, because we're offering sensational, 6 week dry aged Gundooee Organic beef prime cuts. Famine, because the fall out from last February's devastating bushfires compounded by drought continues.
Posted on May 03, 2018
Laura Dalrymple
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