Travelling to Ballaugh, we met up with Farmer Steven Radcliffe who runs Ballacain Farm with his brother.
The farm has been in the family for generations, home to cows, sheep and most importantly Manx potatoes - a key ingredient when making the perfect chips cheese and gravy.
The farm has been in the family for generations, home to cows, sheep and most importantly Manx potatoes - a key ingredient when making the perfect chips cheese and gravy.
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00:00Hi, I'm Stephen Radcliffe, we're here at Bollokane Farm in Blaff.
00:05Here at the farm we have about 200 suckler cows, 500 sheep, and we grow about 30-40 acres
00:10of potatoes.
00:11My mother and father have been doing it for 60 years, I've probably been doing it for
00:15about 30 now, and then I think my father's parents were doing it before that.
00:20Mainly it's to the terrace, Port Jack, and the chippy that Mark has got down at Port
00:26Aaron.
00:27They're bred about March time, harvested out the field from July till probably October,
00:32and then they're stored in the shed then all through the winter.
00:35We've got a grader, which you take all the small ones and the bad ones out, and then
00:39the good ones then carry on and they go straight into the bags then.
00:41You get 40 bags in about 20-25 minutes.
00:44Really?
00:45Yeah.
00:46You're not long getting them, yeah.
00:47Well the terrace will probably use about 40 bags just on the one day, Port Jack will probably
00:52use about 20, and Port Aaron I would say probably about 30, so yeah it'll be a busy day on Monday.
00:58Will you be tasting this blood yourself on Monday?
01:00Yeah, I would think so, yeah.
01:03Yeah.