The only thing I insist on is that my salami is made from slow-growing, pasture-raised pigs and, let me tell you, this is harder than it should be. Think about it this way.
Posted on September 07, 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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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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Two interesting newsletters came across our desk this week which, on the heels of our fruity rhapsodising about the beautiful carcasses, made us think about slaughter.
Posted on March 14, 2018
Laura Dalrymple
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Ok, I admit it. That headline was a craven attempt to get you in. But Brian Kiss from Grasslands Poultry did actually go off-piste and this is a serious story about the challenges farmers have to deal with in their efforts to supply us with the gorgeous food we eat each week.
Posted on February 21, 2018
Laura Dalrymple
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Ever since we started Feather and Bone as a provider of sustainably-raised, rare breed produce, we've been searching in vain for heritage meat chooks to source and sell.
Posted on December 15, 2014
Mrs Feather
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There isn't a single farmer engaged in genuine free range livestock production on this wide brown land or in the seas by which it is girt that isn't proud of their work and who wouldn't want their name or brand on the label of their product.
Posted on October 22, 2014
Mrs Feather
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On the afternoon of Monday 9 June, 2014 at about 3.30 pm we experienced a moment of deep existential angst. We were celebrating Her Majesty's birthday by taking the country air at Fairview Farm near Camden, accompanied by the Lords and Ladies of Feather and Bone, the Queen Mother, Feral 3 and his mate.
Posted on June 16, 2014
Laura Dalrymple
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The more we learn about livestock production and meat, the more we realise the bleeding obvious, which is that animals are just one component of an interconnected, natural system which is only as strong as the health of it’s component parts.
Posted on March 23, 2014
Laura Dalrymple
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...our purpose is to provide a clear line of sight between the producer and the consumer and to offer consumers an option to the unsustainable, intensive food production system.
Posted on June 03, 2013
Mrs Feather
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The more we intervene with the efficient optimisation of natural resources that ruminants offer, the more we need to intervene and the more problems we create.
Posted on January 14, 2013
Mrs Feather
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