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Just to let you know - we do update our facebook page regularly, however I am not quite so good at updating our blog!

We now have our beef boxes ready for you. 10kg of delicious, 5 week hung Ruby Red Organic beef joints, steaks, braising, minced and diced all for £120! Give us a ring or drop us an email! Don't miss out - the next one won't be until after Christmas!

The beef will hang for 5 weeks and then we will have 1/8ths and 1/16ths available to buy in packs. More info on that later! Half lambs will be ready next week so do let us know if you would like one cut in a particular way.

The turkeys we are offering from Hyden Farm are free range, gm free bronze turkeys. Although they are not fed organic feed, they are being managed organically which means no excessive inputs or rubbish going into them! We are buying one! They are £11.50/kg.

This year we are not able to rear our own turkeys as Claire is having an op on her back in mid December (interesting timing!). However, for those of you have already ordered - please don't worry - we can supply you with some reared to the same meticulous standard and quality by a fellow organic farmer. Many apologies for this year to all our lovely customers - please remember to come back to us for 2012!

Just to let you know that we will be taking some lambs in during the next couple of weeks - whole £140 or half £70, butchered to your own spec. Do give us a ring if you would like to order some. Half a lamb takes up roughly one draw in an upright freezer in case you need a guideline on storage space!

Well it has been a while since we have updated! We have been through a lot of changes here but all is going well. We are no longer growing chicken, although we do still have our lovely laying hens. September often feels more New Yearish than New Year itself... one of my many resolutions is to keep you all updated more often! So, I'll keep you posted...

Finally you will be pleased to know, we will have chicken ready for you at the beginning of July! These are available for pre-order - do give us a call or an email. They will be £7.50/kg and we are aiming at approx 2kg per bird. Can't wait!

Hello! We have lots of news to tell you, too much for this little bit, so we will put it on the blog! Sorry it has been a while - we've not had a moment spare to write all that has gone on! Hope you had a good Easter.

We now have a good supply of our beautiful ruby red beef steaks in the freezer. Fillet, sirloin, rump, rib eye...all ready to just drop on the barbie and sizzle to perfection in minutes! Do give us a call if you would like to buy some!

Eggs are back in The Purbeck Deli & Country Foods in Swanage and Salt Pig, Purbeck Wholefoods, Holme Farm Shop in Wareham and of course Clealls in Corfe and Studland Stores in Studland. Not forgetting our lovely Wimborne people - Spill the Beans. Enjoy!

Hello! Just a quick note to let you know that we are in the middle of lambing. It is going well...but means we are a little bit manic on the working hours front! They are just so cute though! Shame about the fox...

Just a quick note to let you know that we took another beef animal in last week so in a few weeks time we will have some beef on offer for you. Please check out the meat box page or email us with requirements. We look forward to hearing from you.

Mark & Laurice are hosting a fantastic food event at their pub - they are already dedicated to sourcing local food as far as they possibly can for their menu. The weekend of the 4-6th March they are offering the opportunity to meet the producers, sample products or simply eat from a delicious menu of local and organic foods.

We are very excited to announce that our beautiful organic eggs will be available for sale in the shops by the end of the week! We hope you enjoy them!

Just to let you know this went well! We were nervous and we did ramble on but thank you to all those who clapped! Thanks to those of you who came down especially - we really do appreciate it! The Knoll Beach Cafe staff were all so lovely and positive too - thanks to them (especially Shirley for inviting us!).

On Saturday 29th January we are going down to the Knoll Beach Cafe as we have been invited to do a little talk on organic farming and life here at Rempstone. They will be serving up two delicious casseroles of our lamb or beef for lunch. Come on down between 11am and 3pm. We'll no doubt be very nervous so heckling will be required!

Well this is all new to me this blogging malarky, but it is quite good fun! You don't have to write anything, but if you want to join up, you will get to hear all that is happening on the farm. Let us know what you think!

O how fantastic! 450 little fluffy brown 18 week old hens arrived this morning from Ben & Cathy Wetherden in Devon. They look very happy in their sparkling clean shed. Unfortunately in our excitement a gate got left open by Farmer Head and our sheep escaped but thanks to Ben, we got them all back in!!

Just got to mention - we called in at the Salt Pig in Wareham yesterday evening and had one of James' fantastic meat pies for tea. What a treat! Thanks James! We highly recommend you do the same...!

Today Andrew has been busy putting up a fence for the new chickens so that we can keep them safely in their own field. Now we just have a bit more hot pressure washing of the sheds to do and then they can be moved and the fence built around them! Hens arrive Monday, all being well.

We have had a busy few days. The rain has made the ground very boggy indeed and the cows and sheep were not happy and each time Andrew went to feed, the tractor made more and more mess of the ground. Our farm has very few dry areas, but a big barn! Saturday we spent the day moving two groups of our cows. We dismantled the turkey accommodation and did a bit of interior redesign of the shed and hey presto - home for cows! They are much happier - they can eat in the dry and roam outside when they want to. Monday we did the same for the sheep and they seem pretty happy with it all as well!

As most of you know, whilst we are not producing the weekly chicken we are not opening our shop on a Friday. However, we do have lots of lovely lamb and our beautiful ruby red beef available from the freezer or packs can be ordered in advance for fresh meat. Just give us a ring or email us and we will be happy to help!

This week we are full steam ahead preparing our laying hen sheds for our new flock to arrive. They will be 18 weeks old and so should start laying within the next few weeks after that! Keep an eye on the news - we'll keep you posted!

Just before Christmas one of our lovely cows died and left us with a beautiful heifer (girl!) calf only born in late October. We have been feeding her every day and she has been sharing a little shed with our alpacas and getting on very well. She is absolutely gorgeous - we are hoping she will grow into a lovely cow like her Mum. All our pedigree animals have a name: Andrew has been calling her Lily.

Hello everyone and a very Happy New Year! We have had a lovely and sociable time over the Christmas holidays hence the lack of news! Hopefully we'll keep you updated more efficiently this year!

Just a reminder that our shop will next be open on 23 and 24 December for ordered turkey collection and a selection of beef and lamb. Generally, we are not open on a Friday at the moment - do give us a ring for orders and deliveries.

Today we had a team of happy pluckers and made a good start on getting your Christmas dinner ready! We all had jolly cold feet but fortunately our lovely friend Nai supplied us with tea and minced pies and then mulled wine at the end of the day. Fab! More later....

How beautiful everything looks in the snow! We went on our daily rounds of checking and all the animals were wanting a bale of hay as they couldn't get to the grass! All the water troughs had a good inch of ice that had to be smashed too. Then they were all happy!