In January 2006 we made a huge life changing decision.Fed up with not being able to source true organic chicken that is reared locally on a small scale and using more traditional methods we decided to sell our house to raise the money to do it for ourselves. We started ‘Clare’s Organics’ and now produce award winning slow growing free range Organic chickens and haven’t looked back since. We farm alongside nature and encourage it to flourish on our farm, not pushing it out to the edge of our fields. We plant strips of ranging cover for our birds which masses of butterflies flock to and wild flowers that swarms of bees rise from as you walk past. Many wild birds live on the farm including fieldfares, lapwings, Skylarks, English partridge and the local red kite. We have hedges surrounding our fields that also support masses of wildlife such as insects, beetles and lots of rabbits. We felt that the current free range standards do not go far enough in terms of bird welfare and decided to rear our birds organically. We are registered with the Soil association and farm well within the standards with a maximum of 300 birds per shed; we believe that small is beautiful and pushing the standards to the limit is wrong. Further InformationIf you would like to know more about Clare's Organics, please call us on: 01367 242077 |
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