Welcome!

We are Racheal and Nick. We met in the freezer isle of Tesco (Nick was the most expensive purchase I’ve ever made! You should see how much he eats!) and we’ve been farming together ever since!

 

Our business gets the name from the Alham River that runs through our current grazing and marks the point where we became a joint enterprise.

 

We’re both extremely passionate about our livestock and looking after the land. We use regenerative farming practices to make sure that we are always trying to improve the ground rather than just maintain it.

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Did you know, if we continue to maintain rather than improve the ground, earth only has about 60 harvests left?

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We aim to be part of the nation that helps up that number, whilst producing quality, healthy grass reared lamb.

 

We’re as close to organic as we can possibly be. We don’t feed any extra concentrates, our sheep just get home made hay or silage and before lambing time, we buy in some local fodder beat to add some energy to their diet. Other than that, they eat what they were designed for, grass.

 

Our aim is to secure a farm of our own so that we have a little more security, more land and buildings, meaning we can then expand our business. We’d like to add cows and pigs to our holding to be able to bring our customers a wider variety of meats.

 

With the extra land we can then also expand into vegetables and planting our own crops to feed and bed our animals instead of buying in; making us more self sufficient and economical as we won’t have to buy in and transport feed and bedding, which will in turn reduce our carbon foot print and fossil fuel use.

 

We’d also like to eventually be able to get our own fleece processed, spun and dyed, so that the handmade items made by Racheal come from our own flock.