Fine lamb takes time
At Faithfulls Creek, we understand that you can’t rush nature. Tasty, tender and succulent lamb takes time. Not the 6 months it has been reared and fattened, but the generations of breeding, meticulous land and pasture management and the precise care of our animals.
Since 1848, our family have been farming the lush green valleys and springs along the Faithfulls Creek, perfecting their craft of the ultimate, contentedly reared and matured, free ranging lamb.
Our lambs are reared the way nature intended. No animal growth hormones, antibiotics or forced lot feeding, just time with their mothers, living in harmony with their environment.
We believe that all good things, do indeed, take time.
Especially lamb.
Our promise to you
100% Free Range
100% Milk & Pasture Fed
100% Hormone & Antibiotic Free
WHOLE LAMB – 20-23kg
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$395.00
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HALF LAMB
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$225.00
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Their original ancestor, John Gall emigrated from Muirkirk in Ayreshire, Scotland in 1837. He had already married Agnes Hill of Edinburgh. They were among Victoria’s earliest settlers and John was a pioneer in land settlement around the Strathbogie Ranges.
After they arrived in Australia he worked as a manager for Mr Neil Black, gaining experience at his station in the Western District of Victoria. In 1848 he took up land at Strathbogie.
John and Agnes travelled by bullock wagon, taking all their possessions with them, from the Western District. It was a long and arduous journey, often having to hack their way through virgin forest. When they arrived at their destination they worked on Bayley’s Hill Station to establish themselves.
By 1851 John held the lease on Wombat Station. He shared the lease of some 17,000 acres with a Mr Hill from 1852 – 1857.
In 1857 John gave up this lease, having suffered very serious stock losses because of a sheep pestilence which was untreatable in those days. William Furlong of Seven Creeks Station took over the Wombat lease from him.
From there he ran a series of farms in the region, before taking up about 13,000 acres of the best land at Balmattum where the extended Gall family farm today.
John and his wife Agnes had eight children; seven of them were boys. Francis, William, Jessie the only daughter, John, twins Alexander & James, Collier & Thomas.
One of the twins, Alexander, was to start a Butcher Shop at St James when times got tough on the land. I wonder what Alexander would have made of Faithfulls Creek lamb, sold online and delivered direct to your door today!
A school roll in 1864 at the “Duck Ponds Euroa Common School” established in 1863 has seven of the Gall family listed of the 34 students.
John Gall was a very strong man, they say from good living and much heavy labour. It was said that he never had a day’s illness and at 90 he was still able to ride his horse from Balmattum to Euroa. At 92 he was said to be as active as a man at 40. He eventually died in 1911 at 95 years of age. Agnes his wife later died at 91 years of age.