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Cornish Food
What makes the food grown in Cornwall special?
Cornwall has a unique climate in the United Kingdom. With relatively
warm, frost-free winters and early springs, Cornish farmers
can produce crops from the fields all the year round.
Plenty of rain means grass grows well and the dairy cows that
graze the pasture produce milk that is rich and creamy. As well
as being sold in liquid form, the milk is made into cream, butter
and more than 50 different types of cheese. With growing season
that extends almost right through the year, farmers can rear
healthy sheep and beef cattle on a simple grass-based diet.
Cornwall's varied landscape means farming to suit the land is
important. There are areas of good deep soil in the east and
far west which yield heavy crops of vegetables and cereals,
and areas with thin soils that will only provide rough grazing
for hardy breeds of sheep and cattle. In between there are sheltered
valleys and exposed cliff tops, high moorland and gently rolling
pasture, all within a narrow stretch of land less than a hundred
miles long and almost completely surrounded by the sea.
Farming has always been an important industry in Cornwall and
the work of generations of farmers has helped shape the landscape
as we see it today. Working with what Nature has given them,
those farmers produce fantastic food: think of those delicious
first new potatoes in spring or the luscious summer strawberries,
ripened in the sun and the sea breezes, and topped off with
some delicious Cornish clotted cream. |
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