BUYING a butcher’s shop to create a paddock-to-plate experience has allowed one beef farmer to have his finger in more than one pie. Col McMicking and his wife, Julie, were always keen to see how they could sell their meat and found the perfect opportunity in 2007 when a butcher shop in Ashburton, in Melbourne’s … Continue reading Weekly Times – Quality, not price, the key to Col McMicking’s paddock to plate venture from Tarwin Lower to Ashburton