Featuring a large roasting joint and succulent venison steaks, lean mince, sausages, meatballs and easy diced venison. This absolutely exquisite box is by far the most popular this time of year, ticking all the boxes for your winter meals.
One of the big aims of Church Farm has been to be fully self-sufficient, which means growing all the food that the herds will need over the winter. But sometimes, the weather doesn’t cooperate.
Currently the barn at Church Farm is housing 80 calves. They’ve been weaned, wormed and given their copper bonuses (deer are susceptible to copper deficiency).
This amazing antler was from Redesdale - a nine year old stag - from about two years ago. He naturally cast this in late March - casting an antler means that it simply falls off. It’s not uncommon for Tom and Chloe to walk into the paddock in in spring and see stag with only one antler - their heads tilted with the weight.
You may have heard about deer having velvet, but it’s not the velvet we might find in clothes or on furniture. Rather, it refers to the growth phase of a stag’s antler when the antler has an abundant blood, nerve, and hair supply and a covering of soft fine hair.
