Milk, taters and fish
Chris Hall is a third generation dairy farmer in the village of Treen where he keeps an organic herd of 30 Guernsey cows. As well as having a go and milking a few heifers, Andrew also got a lesson in the benefits of unpasteurised milk. The sale of ‘raw milk’, as it’s often termed, is tightly controlled by the government because of health fears, but stout of heart as ever, Andrew gave it a try and found he’d never tasted anything like it – ‘a buttery explosion inside your mouth’.
Onwards and upwards, and after stopping to pick a few spuds - Cornish earlies, the nation's oldest variety of potato – Andrew made his way to the coast to meet the men behind Seafood Cornwall, a co-operative of fishermen, merchants and sellers dedicated to maintaining good quality stock in the Cornish seas. The lads gave Andrew a tour around Newlyn fish market sampling a few of the rarer varieties of marine life while discussing the ever pressing issue of sustainability.
