Relaxed Farming - our farm in your classroom

We have been thinking about our food a lot this week: the polytunnel is overflowing at the moment whilst the freezers are getting very empty. We have a rule for our vegetables and meat: if we don't grow or rear it we don't eat it. We only break this rule for frozen peas which we tend to eat a lot of in mid-spring. This is because by that time we will have finished eating any vegetables from the previous year's planting but it will be too soon to be harvesting anything from our early spring planting.
Interestingly frozen peas have an incredibly high nutritional value as they are frozen very quickly after being picked and so are almost as good as being fresh!!
The meals below are real meals and aside from the peas, mayonnaise, cheese and olive oil, all is our own produce! We do still have LOADS of sausages - we ran out of them in our first year here and had to turn customers away so have made huge efforts NOT to do so again: sausages are our best sellers! The freezers will start to fill again with the arrival of this year's pork due in just over two weeks. Our pigs have been raised on friends' land this summer in order to give our pig plot a bit of a rest. There have been 10 weaners running around a four acre field: they have been very happy chaps and chappesses!