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Benefits of Pork Lard

Written by Michele Lyons on June 1, 2023. Posted in Cooking Tips, Health and Wellbeing. Leave a Comment

Pork Lard is a delicious and nutritious choice of animal fat for cooking and has a lot of surprising benefits. When it comes to cooking and eating fats, pork lard often gets a bad rap. However, it’s time to reconsider this misunderstood ingredient. Pork lard, derived from rendered pig fat, has been a staple in...

Grass Fed Meat – Why Eat It?

Written by Ben Clinch on March 28, 2022. Posted in Animal Welfare, Farming and Agriculture, Grass Fed Beef, Health and Wellbeing. Leave a Comment

It’s better. It’s that simple! Grass Fed versus Grain Fed – there are numerous articles around the pros and cons and the impact on our Health. The fact that you are reading this may mean that you are considering buying or have bought from The Free Range Butcher and are therefore conscious of how your meat is produced...

Chicken Livers with Thyme, Garlic & Leek

Written by Michele Lyons on September 20, 2018. Posted in Free Range Poultry, Health and Wellbeing, Organic Chicken, Recipes. Leave a Comment

Chicken livers are very nutritious and high in vitamin A but they can be a bit difficult for most people to deal with. Be a little adventurous and try some different protein options like offal. Ingredients: 250g Organic Free Range Chicken Livers 1/2 tsp salt Generous grind of black pepper 2 tbsp coconut oil 1 leek,...

Waste Not Want Not

Written by Michele Lyons on June 7, 2018. Posted in Cooking Tips, Health and Wellbeing, Miscellaneous. 1 Comment

If you’ve been following us on Facebook then you know we have our Waste Free Wednesday posts where we love to share ideas to help you Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot (compost). If you use lots of lemon and citrus fruit like I do then save your lemon peels for: Sprinkle some salt onto half a cut lemon and use...

Clean Eating Programs

Written by Michele Lyons on October 19, 2017. Posted in Farmers Markets, Health and Wellbeing. Leave a Comment

It seems these days that it doesn’t matter where you look there is a new eating program for you to try. We are bombarded with information about what to eat and it can be confusing and overwhelming when you are trying to do the right thing by your family. My personal thoughts are that as long as you are eating...

Jersey Dairy Milk… It’s just better!

Written by Will Roberts on October 9, 2017. Posted in Cooking Tips, Health and Wellbeing. Leave a Comment

The Over the Moon range of milk reflects the passion and commitment founders Karl and Cathie Johnson have to providing fresh Johnson’s Farmgate produce to their customers. Much of our milk can be traced to the Williams families dairy operations at “Creebank” in the Hunter Valley. The Williams families...

When Trash Becomes Treasure (re-using egg shells!)

Written by Michele Lyons on October 3, 2017. Posted in Health and Wellbeing, Miscellaneous. Leave a Comment

You know we don’t like to waste anything here at The Free Range Butcher so we’ve compiled a short list of things you can do to reuse your egg shells. First though, a few facts: An egg shell is made of calcium carbonate, which means that each medium sized egg shell has 750-800 mgs of calcium. The shell makes up 9-12%...

Together We are One

Written by Michele Lyons on August 27, 2017. Posted in Cooking Tips, Free Range Poultry, Health and Wellbeing. Leave a Comment

When you work in a small team like us here at The Free Range Butcher it makes a positive difference to be surrounded by like minded people who share the same values as you and who are not afraid to pitch in and help out. It’s always all hands on deck no matter what needs to be done around here. Our management...

Benefits of Pork Lard

Grass Fed Meat – Why Eat It?

Chicken Livers with Thyme, Garlic & Leek

Waste Not Want Not

Clean Eating Programs

Jersey Dairy Milk… It’s just better!

When Trash Becomes Treasure (re-using egg shells!)

Together We are One

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