Jimmy's Global Harvest

[HayleyB]

My thoughts too on walking through those harvesters, it was very awesome (soya bean production was very scary) but what the cattle guy is doing talking other farmers into reinstating the forest was brill.

[HeyWayne]

Did you see it last night zazen?

Right up your street. They were talking soil!

[zazen999]

I know - it were fab!!!!

Came back into the dining room and OH said - soil, was it?

Watch as Z runs off to find soluble calcium and mixes it in with comfrey and nettle to make her own gunk.

[HeyWayne]

I know - it were fab!!!!

Came back into the dining room and OH said - soil, was it?

Watch as Z runs off to find soluble calcium and mixes it in with comfrey and nettle to make her own gunk.

I think you'll find the term is "brew". Made me chuckle t'it did.

[PAULW]

ZAZEN just one word Flocculation

[zazen999]

ZAZEN just one word Flocculation

That's 5 words.

[PAULW]

Flocculation

[HeyWayne]

How cool was that last dude tonight with his mobile chicken coop - "the sanitiser crew"? Brilliant!

The pigs big was a little horrific.

[zazen999]

Floating wabbits....it all went a bit Wallace and Gromit. Brilliant.

And the pig farm; I felt sick. Probably why I'm a veggie.....I can't stand the thought of it all going for slaughter but those cages were seriously pitiful.

[HeyWayne]

Floating wabbits....it all went a bit Wallace and Gromit. Brilliant.

And the pig farm; I felt sick. Probably why I'm a veggie.....I can't stand the thought of it all going for slaughter but those cages were seriously pitiful.

It did make me (insert expletive) when that farmer dude said that he says to his guys "lets just do what's best for the pigs"

Maybe let them out of that cage for starters!?

Times like that when I question my carnivorousness.

The tomato place was just astounding!

[zazen999]

It did make me (insert expletive) when that farmer dude said that he says to his guys "lets just do what's best for the pigs"

Maybe let them out of that cage for starters!?

Times like that when I question my carnivorousness.

The tomato place was just astounding!

Aye, can you ever eat a bacon buttie again after watching that?

Tomato place; 24/7 tomatoes; skin and pips to the chooks and water back in to water the toms. Absolute tomato heaven. It's hard to grasp just how much land that guy is farming.

[Alison]

It did make me (insert expletive) when that farmer dude said that he says to his guys "lets just do what's best for the pigs"

Maybe let them out of that cage for starters!?

Times like that when I question my carnivorousness.

That's why I only buy meat from sources I know and trust - I know the couple who own the farm where I buy most of my pig pork / bacon / ham and have met most of the pigs so am 100% confident that they've had a good and fair life I know I pay more but I find the cheap stuff sticks in my throat and I'd rather have lentils.

[HeyWayne]

Aye, can you ever eat a bacon buttie again after watching that?

As long as, like Alison says below, I buy it from somewhere I know and trust. The trouble is, swimming against the tide, those places are becoming harder and harder to find.

That's why I only buy meat from sources I know and trust - I know the couple who own the farm where I buy most of my pig pork / bacon / ham and have met most of the pigs so am 100% confident that they've had a good and fair life I know I pay more but I find the cheap stuff sticks in my throat and I'd rather have lentils.

Our local butcher is actually cheaper than the supermarket (unless you buy the really cheap stuff - but let's face it, that stuff is just wrong), the trouble is, he's open odd hours and we find it difficult to get there.

One thing that struck me with that pig farm last night - how do the muscles develop, or take on any flavour if they never move?

[Alison]

There was some survey a couple of years ago on chickens and it showed that a lot of people prefered the taste and texture of the mass produced ones but that oculd have been because it was familliar, don't know really. One thing we find is that better quality meat that's run about a bit has a denser texture and keeps it form better when cooked (lack of water etc injected into it probably helps too!)

Re buying meat, we tend to buy in bulk when we get a chance to go to the farm shop - which is probably why we have no space for beans (see bolotti bean thread!)

[Scunny Zeb]

From a male point of view.....

I had sympathy for that boar.
he had to walk up and down all day exciting the 'girls' and never got the chance to ..... er.. 'follow through'