The offical online newsletter of the Parish of St. Brelade, Jersey
Portlet Beach
Christmas 2007
News Stories
Merry Christmas from team
Precinct complaints
St. Aubins Day Change
Christmas? Bah-humbug!
Vive Le Jumelage!
‘Pressies’ temps passé
Warren Farm – a year on
A Green Christmas?
Not on your sausage!
Battle of Flowers Assoc.
Walk on the widld side!
Letters to Editor
Happy Chanukah
Mont Nicolle great time!
New Adventure in Faith
Christams Services
St. Aubin Improvements
£8k for Children in Need
In the Frame
Ending on a sweet note!
Modern farming techniques?
Not on your sausage!
Brooklands Farm ‘Me and the Farmer’.

By Sarah Ferguson

No one travelling along Route des Genets can miss the neatly enclosed paddocks sporting a variety of livestock and produce. The black and white pigs are British Saddleback Rare Breed pigs. The pigs are all free range and no one who has seen them can deny that they are well fed and happy. They live contentedly with a variety of chickens and ducks and, as the farm expands, some Jersey calves. There is a free range flock of geese and, essential for a Jersey Farm, a goat.
The farm is using old fashioned techniques of husbandry where possible with old fashioned rotation of crops and animals. The layout has also been carefully planned so that it is easy to organise educational visits by the Primary Schools.
John Hackett has been raising pigs for a number of years and is gaining a reputation for fresh Genuine Jersey Pork, Bacon and Sausages. There are plain sausages but also more adventurous varieties with names such as Corbiere and flavours such as cranberry and port, some with a touch of lavender and others with rosemary. The speciality of the season is Christmas Calvados Sausages .
You can find John at the St Aubin Market but if you can’t wait, you can phone him on 745270 or 07797-721456. A farm website is currently under development at www.meandthefarmer.co.uk


 


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