Ben Clinch, Author at The Yarn by The Free Range Butcher

RAS Fine Food Award Medal Winners

Written by Ben Clinch on September 26, 2014. Posted in Miscellaneous, Newsletter. Leave a Comment

If you’re a follower of our Facebook page you may have already seen this exciting news… We were notified last week that The Free Range Butcher won 7 Medals in the Royal Agricultural Society (RAS) 2014 Fine Food Awards. We collected 3 Silver medals and 4 Bronze medals across our entries in the hotly contested...

The Diet Debate

Written by Ben Clinch on August 18, 2014. Posted in Health and Wellbeing, Newsletter. Leave a Comment

I’m not one for supermarkets. Rarely do we enter, and we try to limit the amount of ‘food’ that we purchase in store. Toiletries and the like are needed, so the gentle force of convenience draws us in. Admittedly my better half is the main purchaser in our house, but recently I had to stop in to purchase a few...

Oakleigh Pasture Fed Pork

Written by Ben Clinch on July 3, 2014. Posted in Farming and Agriculture, Free Range Pasture Fed Pork, Newsletter. Leave a Comment

I’ve mentioned our new pork producer Jack Hewitt a few times now so we thought I’d let you know a little more about who he is and his company, Oakleigh Pasture Pork, which is Gunnedah, Northern NSW. When you talk to Jack about his pigs you can feel the passion he has for what he does and hear the pride in...

Glorious days, cool nights and a little rain…

Written by Ben Clinch on July 3, 2014. Posted in Farming and Agriculture, Free Range Pasture Fed Pork, Newsletter. Leave a Comment

I am always interested and slightly confused when the winter solstice passes, as it has done recently. There are definitely the colder months in front of us, yet the days will now start to get longer, and somewhere in my mind the collision between colder weather and longer days doesn’t make sense, but I don’t speak of...

Pasture Fed Pork is delicious.

Written by Ben Clinch on May 27, 2014. Posted in Free Range Pasture Fed Pork, Newsletter. Leave a Comment

The last time I wrote about the farm we had just received good rain. It was welcomed of course with open arms, and we were hoping for some follow up rain to kick on the fodder crops that germinated from the original seven inches. Alas, it did not come and the cold weather kicked in pulling up any growth from the crops...

An Encounter With Gaz the Boreman

Written by Ben Clinch on April 24, 2014. Posted in Newsletter. Leave a Comment

I arrived in the Northern Territory in early February; the first round of mustering was yet to start. As we waited for the end of the wet season to finish, we worked close around the homestead – fencing, cleaning out water troughs, moving small groups of stock to new water and fresh feed, and helping the mechanics...

We’re for the Bush Appeal

Written by Ben Clinch on March 31, 2014. Posted in Farming and Agriculture, Newsletter. Leave a Comment

Northern NSW Farmers are facing some of the toughest climatic conditions for over 60 years. To their credit they have been preparing and managing through this drought for more than 12 months. But it is tough. 86% of farmers are hand feeding livestock. A quarter of farmers have run out of their own water supplies....

Life Saving Rain

Written by Ben Clinch on March 31, 2014. Posted in Farming and Agriculture, Newsletter. Leave a Comment

It’s just before 7am, the rain clouds are leaving us, retracting to the north. The big grey clouds block the sun’s first rays and you can smell the wet earth. Over seven inches or 175mm have fallen in the last six days, nice steady rain, no heavy showers for run off, just the good soaking rain we so desperately...

One Day Closer to Good Rain

Written by Ben Clinch on February 26, 2014. Posted in Animal Welfare, Farming and Agriculture, Newsletter. 1 Comment

Despite the rain last week the drought tightens its grip on a fair part of Eastern Australia, and we are feeling the pinch on the farm as well, with over half our country now eaten out and the rest is under pressure from the remaining animals. We are selling what we can at the moment as the market for unfinished stock,...

We’re back!

Written by Ben Clinch on January 16, 2014. Posted in Farming and Agriculture, Newsletter. 2 Comments

We’re back! Although it was slower at first, we are now in full swing and I’m ever so slowly getting the body clock back in to the early starts. We had a great break as I’m sure you all did too, great times with loved ones…until they overstay their welcome, hello to our family in Toukley and NZ!…....

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