This time of year as we all sit down to enjoy our traditional Christmas dinner, I wonder how many people even give a thought to the farmers that have produced the fare we all enjoy so much.
This year our Christmas lunch was a very large free range organic chicken which was slow grown on a farm about eight miles from where I live and all of the vegetables were British too. As I had lunch with my daughter and family (she did an excellent job with lunch) I cannot be sure where the vegetables came from because she doesn't have a farmer's market like ours, but I do know they were British grown because she wouldn't dare serve me anything else!
Because I was in the habit of getting up very early all my working life I find it's a habit that's hard to break, so now when I wake up, I make a cup of tea and go back to bed where I frequently listen to the farming programme on Radio 4. This is often extremely interesting and the other day I was surprised to hear how our carrots are pampererd so that they are at their very best for our Christmas dinner no matter what the weather. Apparently the farmers put them under straw 'duvets' when there is a frost forecast and this year I am sure they must have all been working like trojans to ensure they got our carrots to the shops on time for us to enjoy them at their optimum.
With all the bad weather recently I think all our farmers deserve our heartiest thanks and appreciation as there has been no difficulty in buying our milk, meat and vegetables and even in below freezing temperatures they still have to look after their livestock and harvest vegetable crops.
So to the farmers that grew our Christmas dinner........Thankyou and a Very Merry Christmas to you all.
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