Get Grilling!

Recipes

This weekend is the time for grilling and we’ve had some requests to provide a few grilling tips for your River Cottage Farm Grass Fed steaks. Cooking over a live flame puts on a good show, and grilling steaks is a cakewalk once you’ve done it more than once. At...

Our Beef, Lamb and Chicken – Back in Stock

Farm Shoppe, Grass Fed Beef, Grass Fed Lamb

Good Meat Comes to Those Who Wait   They say that when it rains, it pours and today we are about to get drenched. Yesterday we received calls from our beef, lamb and poultry abattoirs that all of our meat is ready for pick-up. We took in 5 lambs, 8 steers and 75...

Narnia, here at River Cottage Farm

Musings

It takes more than four straight days of rain to keep me from my pasture walks in the mornings.  I pull on my Wellies, step out onto the patio and with the deepest breath I can muster I bask in the beauty of our farm. Balancing my piping hot cup of tea as I unhook...

A Lesson in Cow Watching

Animals, Farming, home page slider, Musings, Raw Milk

Here is a picture of a cow, beautiful, healthy, and perfect in every way. To the trained eye of a cow watcher, this is a cow with a secret.  Her posture is saying, “There’s nothing here to see, just me in Narnia, minding my own business,” but I’ve seen that look too...

Reaping the Rewards of Quiet

Musings, Simple Living

I must admit that no matter how hard I try to obey my children and stay in bed until 5:30 am, every once in a while I just can’t take the waiting and quietly tip toe out into the dark, still house already anticipating the coming hours.  It’s absolutely, hands down, my...