Students from local schools make deforestation free corned beef pasties

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00:00Hi, I'm here today at Haberdasher's Monmouth School to observe a group of local students

00:05from local schools in the area to prepare and make a meal which is deforestation free,

00:10ready for Abergavenny Food Festival at the weekend. Let's find out more and see how they're getting on.

00:16Hi, I'm Anne Harrod from the Pickle & Club and we're here reimagining corned beef which is kind

00:23of a weird thing. We have some corned beef that the children started last week and we're going to

00:28make into pasties this week. My name's Nikki, I'm campaign officer with Size of Wales and today

00:35we are working with students from the community of Monmouth, from Haberdasher's Monmouth and from

00:41Monmouth Comprehensive School to reimagine our food system. We're joined today by Rob from Square Farm

00:49who farms organic regenerative beef in his farm just a few miles down the road. So today we're exploring

00:57how we could reimagine a corned beef pasties. So what's really exciting is the pasties that they

01:03make tonight in this workshop will be going to the Abergavenny Food Festival. There's many advantages to

01:10British grass-fed beef compared to imported grain-fed beef. The main advantage is the beef tastes nicer,

01:22the beef carries a lot more minerals and vitamins and a better balance of fatty acids. Today we're

01:31making a sustainable corned beef pasty. We know it's sustainable as the cow was grass-fed and we got it from

01:37a local farmer named Rob. Last week we started the corned beef by adding salt and it would preserve it,

01:43keeping all the bacteria away. And this corned beef pasty is going all the way to Abergavenny Food Festival and even you can try it.

01:52So I tried corned beef for the first time last week and it was really really good and now this week

01:59we have made our own corned beef and we're making corned beef pasties and I'm super super excited for it.