Contact Details
Steve Gould & Tess Evans
E-mail:steve@steeptonbill.plus.com or tess-steeptonbill@live.co.uk
Directions: Google map link and enter Steeptonbill Farm in search bar. Postcode DT11 0AT
Phone: 07824 702 398 or 07891 079 615
If you would like to purchase meat from us we are able to process payments using Paypal and arrange for delivery via courier. Please enquire by email or phoning the above numbers. Click here for prices and recipe ideas.
New Steeptonbill products!
Dry Cured Portland Mutton Ham:
This old English recipe was very popular in the 18th Century. Our butcher bones and rolls one of our legs of mutton, then dry cures it. It is then thinly sliced and packed for us. Lots of postitive feedback so far from customers so far!
Morrocan inspired Mergez sausages:
Made from our own Portland Mutton these spicy little numbers are delicious, especially if used in a sausage casserole or cassoulet pot
15th January 2012
Our pedigree Boer nanny goat called 'Three Spots' has given birth today! Two cute little kids, who are doing well. Their father is our own boer billy by the name of 'Joe'. We will be registering them with the Boer Goat Society soon. We also have some other breeds of goat that have been crossed with Billy Joe.
(I told you they were cute!)
10th May 2011
We have been invited to do a blog on the Dorset Magazine website. Here is the link. Will try and keep them as regularly as possible. (If only we didn't have to sleep we would have plenty of time!)
16th January 2011
Steeptonbill Free Range Pork now for Sale!!
Yes, the day has come. Our piglets have had seven months of free ranging, running around and digging. They have had a fantastic diet supplemented with fresh fruit and veg from our stall, without any growth promoters or antibiotics like their mass produced cousins. Good, old fashioned delicious pork. Contact us for orders. PS - latest feedback from customers - 'best crackling we have had for ages!'
Free Range Guinea Fowl for Sale!
Prepared Table Birds: £6.50 each. Fabulous taste. £6.00 each of ordering 6 or more.
Also live adult, Poults or Keets. £10.00 each or £6.50 if ordering 6 or more. See Guinea Fowl page for details.
Our Fantastic Butcher
We are so delighted to have found the Blackmore Vale Butchery Service near Henstridge. Dave and Gavin are real experts at their trade and nothing is too much trouble. They sell excellent quality local meat and offer a meat cutting service for small farmers such as ourselves. This is where we hang all our Portland Mutton and Hogget. They also make our lovely sausages for us. Click the link above for more details of what they do.
Monday 8th November
Girls rounded up and waiting for beauty treatments!
Up at Greenhill Down, Hilton to round up the flock. We needed to gather the 41 sheep together and give their feet and rear ends a tidy up! Our very kind friends Brian and Anne came up with their three sheepdogs to help. They were fantastic, it was great to see the dogs react to whistled instructions from Brian. Everything went like a dream and the weather stayed dry while we were working. A great day except for the fact we got the trailer stuck in thick mud on the way home! Luckily, Nick, a neighbouring farmer came to our rescue with a winch. He drove all the way from Sherborne especially to help us. Lots of thanks and owed favours from us we think!
Mango with her 'post operative hairstyle': 
At the end of October we had an accident. Our lovely little dog Mango sat under the front wheel of the truck. We were shocked to hear her yelp and found we had run over her leg! She has had an operation to have a pin inserted. Healing is a long process and the leg is not taking any weight yet. Even though she is an old girl of 14 she was so fit and healthy it seemed wrong not to try and fix it.
Monday 4th October
We have had a very busy summer. Lots of work on the veg patches but a good year for most of our crops.
We have been allowed to graze some of our sheep on a fantastic area of nature reserve owned by the Dorset Wildlife Trust called 'Greenhill Down'. They wanted the grass kept down and preferred to have some rare breeds doing the job.
The grass is just full of wild herbs and grass types with lots of hedgerows for the sheep to take shelter under so they are loving it!
Our piglets are growing so fast, racing around together and enjoying lots of left over fruit and veg from our market stall. We have had 'Dirty Pete' back for a while and Ella and Bella seemed very pleased to see him!
We have a 'smoker' made up in the barn. It is made from an old oil drum connected to our wood burning stove. We lots of lovely wood available so will start experimenting smoking some different things. Have an idea to try some Guinea Fowl breasts, which should be delicious! So watch this space!
Tuesday 25th May
Surprise, Surprise! nature has taken its course and Ella had her first (litter?) of piglets. Ten little pink curly tailed rascals. Only a few hours old and already play fighting with each other and escaping out of the farrowing pen! She is a good mum and as we have had so much contact with her through the pregnancy she tolerates us coming in and showing an interest in them. Bella (lady in waiting!) in the pen next door is feeling a bit neglected so she gets a special tummy rub when we are around. (photos by Andrew Hepburn)
Peeking in back window at newborns! " Are we allowed out here?" Too cute for comment!
Friday 14th May
A very busy time at the moment. Lambing is over for another year. Thirty new lambs running out in the fields with mums.
Ronnie and Reggie seem to be taking their roles of 'flock bouncers' seriously. But this means that our dog Mango is made to feel very unwelcome! If the alpacas see her in the distance they head towards her making a very strange high pitched noise. She hasn't hung around very long to see what might happen! Shearing is next on the agenda for sheep and alpacas, so please let us know if you would like any lovely high quality fleeces!
Ella and Bella our two Saddleback pigs are definitely looking pregnant now. So Steve has been building two farrowing pens for them to use as maternity homes. They are best friends now but once the piglets come along in a few weeks it will be a different story!
We have been planting beetroot, broad beans, peas, mange tout and courgettes. Not to mention some exciting new crops like salsify and Sorrel!
"they've got me working like a dog!"
Steve looking 'pink with pride' with his new seasons crop of rhubarb!
Sunday March 14th
At long last it seems Spring has finally arrived! A spell of dry sunny weather so we are finishing off the rotovating of our vegetable plots. Even managed to get the first crop of Jerusalem Artichokes into the ground with the help of the family. They are easy to grow and their tall plants will make a windbreak for the more tender crops. Its good to see the first small stems of Rhubarb pushing their way through the piles of compost we have put around them. Delicious Rhubarb ready in a couple of weeks!
Tuesday 26th January: New Arrivals!!
Great excitement at the arrival of two alpaca geldings! They are so cute! but are here on a mission to hopefully guard against foxes and stray dogs harming the sheep. We collected them from Tim Hey at Inca Alpacas near Dorchester. We in fact have two others as well, grazing at Winterbourne Steepleton, so if anyone is interested in buying two from us please get in touch.
Photo by Andrew Hepburn
8th January
In the biting wind we found our first lamb of the year cuddled up against mum! A little Ram Lamb, he was 'Baa-ing' very loudly, We decided to carry him, with mum following dutifully behind into the covered Barn area as the weather is so freezing at the moment! He is the typical pretty rusty red colour of the Portland Lambs.
photo by Tim Bunce
Little Ram Lamb 'Peter', very chilly start to life but soon made comfy with mum in the barn!
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