Hogging The Limelight

    A few weeks ago we built a pig roast spit for events we hold here at Radford Mill Farm and last weekend we got to take it for a test ride. The pig was around 40-50Kg and made a fine photo opportunity for the 150 people we easily managed to feed from it.

The fire was prepared early to get the and stones nice and hot.

Once cooked the pig is removed from the spit 

and placed in our a purpose built tray until we are ready to carve and serve.

Our big secret ingredient is of course Nigella Lawso... I mean music...

    Our eco-cooler (the stream) did a great job of chilling the wine and I'd just like to state for the record, that I was placing wine in the water and hadn't consumed too much.

    The kids at the event were queueing up to learn how to carve the pig and all children were returned to their parents with all fingers counted and intact.

    The pork was juicy and succulent with some excellent crackling. The meat was accompanied by roast vegetables with herbs and generous helpings of apple sauce. So all in all a very successful first roast. I can report that a number of people (names withheld to protect the guilty) had third helpings!

The Crops Are A Growing

    It's been a while since our last blog post but life is busy here at RMF. Our crops are growing fast, now that the sunshine has arrived. We are transplanting leeks and potatoes to the fields around the poly tunnels and also the big fields. Last week we finally got the spuds in after weeks of rain, when the soil was too wet for the planting to commence.

    The job was completed by Richard, Sirio and Giammarco, together with one of our trusty Ferguson tractors. The Italians are volunteer WWOOFers with amazing potato planting skills, among many others. The job was all done in just 3 hours but the

workers did take a short break when we were inundated by a 10 minute hail storm!

    Although they toughed it out for a while, the soil started getting sticky so the work was abandoned.

    It finally dried out and we finished. Spuds done, time for a glass of cider!