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Last day for internet orders this year will be Tuesday, 9th December 2008 & our last day for delivery of internet orders will be Wednesday, 17th December 2008
Please check our Opening Times section for our Christmas opening times this year
We are a 850 acre traditional mixed and non-intensive family run farm based in the heart of rural Cornwall and we produce, supply and deliver the finest quality meats and produce from our licenced premises.All the beef and lamb sold in the shop is born and reared on our farm.
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November 2008
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| Terry, Ian and Richard Lobb recieving the Otter trophy at the Royal Cornwall show |
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Newsletter Autumn 2008
News from Kestle Farm
First the good news: we are delighte.d to have won the Cornwall FWAG (Farm and Wildlife Advisory Group) Otter Trophy for 2008. This is the second time that we have won this award; the first time was in 2003. Winning this award is important to us because we believe that we have a responsibility to care for the countryside and this award is recognition of our efforts to do this important work. We have many different habitats on our farm providing opportunities for wildlife to thrive alongside our productive use of our farmland.
Winning this county competition enables us to be entered into the national FWAG Silver Lapwing competition. We are fortunate to have been selected for the final shortlist. We may well struggle to win this award because our farm is a typical Cornish mixed farm; we do not have any special wildlife rarities on our farm such as ospreys or a rare orchid. But what makes our farm special is that we have made care of the countryside an integral part of our business. We endeavour to explain to customers and visitors including many school groups just how we produce food and care for our farm crops, animals and wildlife. We are trying to demonstrate that it is possible to produce quality food and conserve our environment and it does not mean farming has to be organic to achieve these results. This is sustainable farming in the real world; quality food from a quality countryside produced at a realistic price. What enables us to do this is the support of you, our customers, who buy food from Lobbs Farm Shop.
The harvest began well; we managed to harvest 80% of our barley in near perfect conditions. It was fantastic to bring in the grain and not have to dry the crop; the straw was good and a lovely bright golden colour. We were able to bale the straw at our convenience and carry to store in our sheds all in the dry.
As you all know, August has been a summer disaster. What a change; rain, rain and more rain. Wheat harvesting has been extremely difficult and expensive. The grain has required drying - we used £400 worth of gas in four days, and the straw has had to be turned to enable the wind to dry the swathes. This has all meant extra work for us and the galling thing is that our grain buyers have informed us that grain prices have dropped to £105/ton from £180 which is a similar price to 5 years ago; at that price it is uneconomic for us to grow wheat. We have yet to see the media report this news and I wonder when the price of bread will drop!!
News from Lobbs Farm Shop
We are now selling English apples again with the new season’s crop of Discovery apples looking great. We have a few of these trees in our own orchards and the apples are a lovely red colour and taste great. Every cloud has a silver lining - the wet summer has meant the young saplings have not needed extra watering.
We are interested in selling more local apples. We currently have a couple of suppliers that are able to source limited amounts of fruit; if you have any good quality eating apples why not bring them to the farm shop and let us sell them to other interested apple connoisseurs. By reinvigorating the local food economy we can encourage more local production of fruit and support Cornish producers.
Locally two growers have been successful with their fruit products; Cornish Orchards and the Cornish Cyder Company apple juices and ciders are very tasty. Both orchards are now producing a pear cider which has been very popular this summer; both are well worth trying.
Lobbs Farm Shop has won a Taste of the West Gold Award for our homemade meatballs, using a mix of Kestle Farm beef & Cornish pork, in tomato sauce. The two new sausage varieties have also done us proud; the pork with wild mushrooms collected Silver and the pork with green pepper and shallots won a Bronze award. Well done the butchery team, especially Lesley our specialist sausage maker.
Lobbs Farm Shop stocks 59 of this year’s award winning products; please look for the labels on the products or on the shelves and try these excellent products yourself. There is still time to enjoy a BBQ; we will continue to stock the full range of burgers, steaks and sausages right into the autumn.
You could try our meatballs with any of the Italian pastas that we sell; the choice is Garganelli, Boccolotti, Spaghettini, Strozzapretti, Lasagne and Fusilli. To complement the pasta we have cooking sauces such as Mamma Donna’s amazing pasta sauce from Halzephron Herb Farm or Bay Tree’s tomato and wild mushroom.
We have now employed Pier, an Italian chef, to prepare our farmhouse kitchen range of foods; he has been busy making the quiches, pies, lasagnes and salads during August. In the autumn he will be developing more kitchen products which we hope you will try.
The next taster day is on Saturday, 20th September when we hope to have a few of these products available for tasting - yum, yum.
email:lobbsfarmshop@btconnect.com www.lobbsfarmshop.com
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