| Farmers Markets 2009
1st Saturday : Rode Hall and Tarporley
2nd Thursday : Ludlow
3rd Saturday : Mill Mill View Primary School, Upton, Chester, CH2 1HB, Cloverbank
4th Thursday : Ludlow Farmer's, Market, Ludlow
Last Saturday in month : Nantwich
4th Sunday in the month : The Bull Shocklach, nr Malpas, Cheshire
Food Fairs
Congleton Food Festival 21 June 2009
Cheshire County Show 24 June 2009
Shropshire Lavender Chetwynd Medieval Fair TF10 8AH 25th-26th July 2009
Ludlow Food Festival 11-13 September 2009
Chestnut Meats was on "Kill it Cook it Eat it" on BBC3 in January 2008.
We were filmed last August on our farm by a BBC film
crew and asked to take part in the show.
We went on the show wanting to promote the eating of goat as a good healthy
meat which is low in fat and cholesterol and wanted to try and boost the eating
of goat meat in the UK.
We took 7 kid boer goats into Oldham and to an especially built TV Studio with
a slaughter house attached on the side.
Julia Bradbury was the presenter and she took the audience (which were a cross
section of meat eaters and vegetarians) through the whole process of seeing
the goats arrive with us, through the killing process, through to looking at
the carcasses with John Mettrick the butcher and then onto finally cooking the
meat for the audience to try. The whole killing process was very professionally
done but still shocked a lot of the audience. We take our own animals into slaughter
but do not stay for the slaughtering process and so this was the first time
that I had seen them being slaughtered. I was pleased with how the goats had
been looked after.
In the audience also was Julian Davies and his wife from Julian's restaurant,
who we supply goat to for his restaurant and also Louisa and Neil Armitage who
have a large dairy goat herd in Yorkshire and got us started into goats in the
first place! We sourced our original herd from these guys and owe them alot
as they taught us all we know about goats.
For us the debate was about eating kid goat and was it right, we normally supply
much older animals for slaughter, the kid goats are just under 12 months old
and also we supply adult goat into the Carribean restaurants such as RNK in
Bebbington, Wirral. It was very odd for us to be taking such young animals in
and I do believe it is harder to eat baby animals.
Once the kid goat has been cooked it looked like veal more than the goat we
are used to, we are used to a deeper red meat in colour from our goats. Also
we believe that meat should be hung and this adds to flavour. The meat in the
show probably didn't come out at its best as it didn't have enough time to rest
and mature. Also I believe that some parts of goat need slower cooking and on
a TV show you don't have the time! However as a debate as to eating baby animals
it worked and also as a promotion of eating goat meat and to get people talking
about eating goat.
Julian's restaurant 20 Birkenhead Rd, Hoylake, Wirral does superb goat recipes,
such as diced goat with winter vegetable like butter nut squash and the goat
meat just melts when you eat it. If you want a good bistro where they are serving
goat then try Julian's, Hoylake.
RNK restaurant (Afro Carribean Cuisine), 5-7 Old Chester Road, Bebbington, Wirral
are serving our dairy goat in a Carribean way as goat curry if you want to try
another style of eating goat.
Or come and buy some from our shop and make some at home from one of our
recipes!
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