the farm animals

The Agrarian Kitchen extended family includes eleven Barnevelder chickens, which supply the most beautiful dark brown eggs with chocolate spots for use in everything from ice cream to omelettes. They are fed a diet of whole grains and greens from the vegetable garden, and perform the task of scratching up and manuring the straw before it is spread over the garden.

The gaggle of geese are a cross breed of Emden and Chinese and have reliably, for the past two springs, laid eggs and raised gosling from the eggs we didn’t snaffle for our own purposes, several geese have graced the Christmas table and we are currently fattening others for the honorable pursuit of goose charcuterie.

We recently acquired two British Alpine milking goats, Pretty Girl and Myrtle. 

Lastly our two female Wessex saddleback pigs have tirelessly dug through the new garden, rooting out tenacious perennial weeds, they will live out their days at The Agrarian Kitchen and spawning new generations of tasty little piglets.