Here you can find recipe ideas and cooking tips to give you inspiration and confidence in cooking a new beef or lamb cut for an easy family meal that will become a family favourite and asked for time and time again. As well as find our more about where the cuts come from on the sheep or cow.

The number and type of cuts from a whole lamb or whole cow can seem a lot.

This is even the case for us farmers, who have enjoyed our own meat from our own farm for many years. Overtime we have learnt more and would like to share a little about the optimal cooking methods to match with beef or lamb cuts to make easy family meal times for your family, along with succulent and flavour filled eating.

Why do you need to reclaim freezer space before a meat delivery?

• Your meat will arrive ready to be stored in your freezer on delivery day.

• From my experience as Misses Farmer and being the grateful reciever of our farms meat for over 10 years, it is most helpful to have specific sections of your freezer emptied and ready for your meat delivery to be stored. I find it helpful to have freezer space organised in sections where I know where to find the beef or lamb or mince or sausages to help with quick and easy family dinners with meat from our farm.

• Eating our your freezer makes defrosting your freezer easy, which also helps with reclaiming freezer space, as any build up of ice can be removed giving you back that space for storing your food.

• It can take a few weeks to eat through a sizeable freezer to reclaim freezer space, so it is a great idea to get started now.

There have been increases in interest rates over the past 12 months which has impacted our family business, as well as many other small business’. We have also just recieved offical notification from the Bureau of Meterology confirming that we are in a drier weather pattern, an El Nino.

Last week, Mr Farmer was in contact with a local stock agent. In the past, would sell our sheep and cattle through local stock agents and markets. We have been advised that for sheep, the price has dropped to one fifth of last years’ prices and they are booked out until November (2 months away).

This is why we have decided to try something different.