The Yarn
The Free Range Butcher specialises in Grass Fed, 28 day Dry Aged Beef and Lamb, Pasture Fed Free Range Pork, and Free Range Poultry.
It’s been a big year for us at the Free Range Butcher, and a year of two tales. While the butchery side of things has gone forward in leaps and bounds and we look forward to celebrating our 10th year in business, our farm ‘Blue Hills’ has had it tough and is still in drought, […]
Gardening at home is rewarding in many ways, not only does it get you outdoors, it can bring you a new found hobby but also it can keep you in a plenty of fresh fruit, vegetables and herbs. For some of us with a little more space than others there is no end to what […]
I don’t mind a drive in the country. Seeing new country is the best, different soils and trees always tell a story and no description does the justice of being there. Last month I drove out through the lower Hunter, left onto the Golden Highway and headed towards Dubbo. I camped the night at a […]
Welcome to our Winter Newsletter for 2018. We fell off the horse in writing newsletters a while back…. With a good amount of rest under our belt this month we bring you news from the farm, some tips for your winter garden, some help around food programs and some kitchen inspiration too. Winter on the […]
Teaching my kids where their food comes from is part of why we grow as much as we can. The next step is showing them how to cook. My two are generally pretty good when it comes to what they eat and they like to remind me that they picked those carrots or planted the seeds […]
It’s unclear where the superstitions surrounding Friday the 13th started but if the month starts on a Sunday then you’ll have a Friday the 13th. October brings us a Friday the 13th and Halloween. If you are little superstitious when it comes to Friday the 13th then lets eat foods that bring us luck. Pork […]
The farm is as pretty as a picture at the moment. A great Spring with regular falls of rain have put feed on the ground for the start of Summer. The optimistic farmers amongst us hope for some good rain in December to keep this going. What a great finish to the year that would be, especially […]
At the farm, we get a longer Winter than most. Our elevation means that Spring starts a little later, some years we can be still cutting wood for the fire, well into October. As you leave Barraba some 30kms away and some 250m below us, the Summer feed is well away. The fodder oats are […]
So I’ve had a few people mention that they were keen to see how the yarn I told last month panned out… (If you missed it, you can read it here.) I could tell the boss was a bit nervous as he was chain smoking more than usual. I had denied his order for me to […]
I saw an old mate not long ago at the markets. He saw me before I saw him and he crept up as I was spruiking my wares out the front of the stall. “Last time I saw you, you were working on a building site. Weren’t you a wall and floor tiler? Geez, is […]