Belted Galloways
A loving spoonful…we are collaborating with Linda Duffin of Mrs Portly’s Kitchen on recipes for our Beltie beef. Linda is a local food champion and recognises how much care we lavish on our beltie herd, and how this love and care translates into a wonderful end product of flavour on the plate..The first recipe is …
Excited for the arrival of twin calves on the farm to old timer Peggy – this is our first set of beltie twins – and quite a rare thing, two little bull calves, one black and white and one dun and white! Images courtesy of Caroline Tillett Photography
Our first 2021 beltie calf was born during Storm Darcey, a lovely little dun heifer calf named after said storm who will definitely be a keeper! Her half sister a silver dun heifer was born two weeks later a great start to calving 2021….now we just await longer, warmer days and some nice grass for …
So if you watched carefully on BBC’s Countryfile on Sunday 23rd August you may have caught sight of our Belties on the Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s Petos Marsh at Carlton near Lowestoft. The belties do alot of important conservation grazing for the Trust at both Oulton and Carlton marshes as well as the Camps Heath Nature …
April saw the arrival of the first of our 2020 beltie calves, the weather has been kind and they are enjoying sunning themselves down on Burgh Marshes with their Mum’s. All our calves get names and 2020 they all start with a “T” – so here we have Ted, Captain Tom and Twiglet.
We had an amazing time up at the Belted Galloway National Show at the Westmorland County Show in the Lake District this week. It was a lovely show despite the weather and long old haul up from Norfolk and so unexpectedly worthwhile. Our dun beltie bull Waveney Harnser won his class, Champion bull class and …
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We have had a successful season showing the belties with our dun bull Waveney Harnser taking reserve male and reserve best of breed at the Royal Norfolk, and then going one better at the Great Yorkshire winning his class and male champion. Our young red beltie heifer also did well at the Norfolk winning her …
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So this spring some of our yearling beltie gang are off to earn their keep as Conservation Grazers on the Suffolk Wildlife Trust sites at Oulton Marshes. Their task is to graze various wet nature reserve sites breaking up the sward to encourage diversity – unlike their commercial cousins belties do well on this kind …
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This week saw the arrival of the first offspring from our young home grown Belted Galloway Bull Waveney Harnser ( “Heron”) including a beautiful silver dun heifer – mums and babies all doing well!
Nice little piece on our Belties in the East Anglian Daily Times this week to celebrate the 2019 Great British Beef Week. We have some limited supplies of our 45 day hung Pasture for Life Certified Beltie Beef available from the farm and are now taking beltie beef box orders for delivery at the end …