The Sustainable Food Trust’s Food and Farming Conference 2022, took place in June at Fir Farm, bringing together leaders from the farming, business, finance, NGO, research and policy sectors. The event included keynote talks and panel sessions exploring the urgent need for a radical transformation of our food and farming systems in response to the
This article was created as part of the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission’s #LandUnlockedTour, a collection of stories from across the UK showing how citizens are harnessing food and nature to deliver real climate action. Click here to read more stories or follow #LandUnlockedTour on Twitter and Instagram. “Young people are going to be the
Fir Farm submitted a response to the UK Government’s recent consultation on Improvement to Animal Welfare in Transport. Key points were: More small abattoirs are needed in order to meaningfully reduce journey times for livestock travelling to slaughter. Proposed maximum journey times are too long and we recommend a much shorter maximum distance, particularly to
The Abattoir Sector Group has been formed following the recommendation by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Animal Welfare’s (APGAW) report into ‘The Future for Small Abattoirs in the UK’. The mission of the ASG is to support and develop a thriving network of local abattoirs across the UK, which is essential to maintain high animal welfare standards,
Press release – 8th June 2020 Small Abattoirs are the backbone of rural farming, providing a crucial service to thousands of family farms. As we emerge from COVID-19, the continued demise of the small abattoir sector not only threatens these small businesses but is in danger of undermining the government’s own commitments to local, healthy,
9th April 2020 As a member of the Campaign for Local Abattoirs, we contributed to a briefing sent to Defra and published by the Sustainable Food Trust, which set out our suggestions for supporting small abattoirs during this difficult time. Small abattoirs are vital for local meat producers and since the coronavirus pandemic there has
Our saddleback pigs are an important part of our mixed livestock farm in the Cotswolds. Near to Stow-on-the-Wold, our farm has a diverse landscape with permanent pasture, arable fields, woodland, orchards and the River Dikler all creating habitats for wildlife and a quality environment for rearing our animals. We chose to keep Saddlebacks because they are a
This article by Lauren Stine was published on 27th February by Sacred Cow. Many people view livestock production as providing one simple output: meat. But when you add up the many products that source ingredients from cattle alone including tallow for beauty products, cartilage for osteoarthritis medications, and gelatin for foods as a few examples,
This week we had a visit from Matt Somerville of Bee Kind Hives to talk about beekeeping at Fir Farm
