Links to great sites!

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Links to related companies and organisations

Tom Main Accountants
Need your accounts or tax returns doing? Want some clear business advice? I can recommend my accountant!
Easter Wood Alpacas
Champers and Casper came from Easter Wood Alpacas
Dairy Farming
Great resource for teachers and parents to help explain life on a dairy farm.
Fit2cook
Why not learn how to cook all those great seasonal, local ingredients once you have heard from MCFE how they grow?
Bocketts Farm Park, Leatherhead
A friendly family farm in Surrey you can visit!
Longdown Activity Farm, New Forest
A friendly family farm in the New Forest you can visit!
Ponies at Parties
Not just a riding school
The Loom Exchange
A useful site for courses & equipment. This is where Sarah went on her spinning course, but other textile craft is also undertaken.
The Grain Chain
A good website full of interactive ways of teaching topics such as how our food is grown, and gives easy recipes for use within schools too.
Food - A Fact of Life
This is an easy guide for teachers to develop the ideas and work started by the Mill Cottage Farm Experience, within their classroom. Some great interactive games for primary children.
Chicken Out! Campaign
Do you know about the life your fresh supermarket chickens led before they reached the table? This website and the tv series will soon enlighten you. We can't all get our meat from our back garden, but we can all make informed choices about what we buy. Take a look - the new River Cottage series, Hugh's Chicken Run started Monday 7th Jan 2008 at 9pm.
Love Food Hate Waste
This is an extremely useful website for schools and at home. It gives the reasons behind why waste is an important issue and a helpful feature enabling you to calculate not only how much of each food you will need for each meal, but also gives you the shopping list for the week - you can't go wrong!
Hampshire Guild of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers
The Hampshire Guild of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers - they will be at our Open Day on Easter Monday (see the events page.)
British Wool Marketing Board
From Fleece to Floor; From Sheep to Shop. Lots of information and teaching resources.
The Good Life
If only we'd had BBC backing...
River Cottage
Our hero - just wish we had friends ready to help us out at every turn! PS The Nettle Gnocchi is delicious: treat the nettles like spinach, but invest in some gloves when picking.
Cracking Eggs
All the information you ever needed to know about eggs.
Around the World
Link of useful resources.

Links to information on our breeds

Golden Guernsey Goat Society
Golden Guernsey Goats
British Kune Kune Society
Kune Kune Pigs
Maran Chickens
Maran Chickens
Dorset Horn & Poll Dorset Sheep Breeders' Association
Poll Dorset Sheep
Norfolk Black Turkeys
Norfolk Black Turkeys
Call Duck Association UK
Call Ducks

Links to news items about MCFE

East Dorset man celebrates 106th birthday
Bournemouth Echo 21st April 2010
Smallholder of the Year entrant: Tom and Sarah
Country Smallholding September 2009
Tired of city life? Find yourself a smallholding and get in touch with your rustic side
Daily Mail 04th September 2009