James Robinson
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Org 5th gen dairy farmer. Married dad. Messing about in becks. Wandering with a cow. Hedge nerd. james.michelle2 @icloud .com
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She appeared at our farm 7 years ago, severely emaciated & full of cat flu, she was wild & scared of anything that moved. She eventually became a house cat and a full time member of our family.
Today though was her last and this daft old farmer will miss her
Goodnight Scabbers
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If anybody thinks that as individual farmers, we can’t make a difference, then they’re wrong.
2 photos on our farm, taken in the exact same spot, April 1989 & June 2020.
Be the change you want to see. We’re only here once, may as well make a difference & do something worthwhile
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Walking back the old lane for afternoon milking.
Just as my Great Great Grandad would’ve done over 140 years ago, with the same breed of cows and some of the same families too.
Makes you want to try your best to keep it all going 🙂
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An otter, in the daytime, on our pond...ON OUR FRIGGIN POND!
We knew we had them, we’ve seen them for years via trailcam, but this is the 1st time I’ve been lucky enough to see one for real.
I am absolutely made up, this is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen on our farm!
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It’s only after decades and decades of working with cows, that you can pick up on the tiny little signals they give you about how they are feeling.
This, for example, is an entire herd telling me to let them back inside out of the cold rain. I doubt many folk could spot that…
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Tired of Westminster shenanigans?
Here’s some cows gadding about for your entertainment.
We aim to please ☺️
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After 5 months of winter lockdown, the cows are back out in the field!
The best day of the year for them and us 😊
* apologies for the wind noise
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Planting a hedge & to replace one lost 40yr ago. We are mid-way putting in 600m this winter, which will take us up to about 97% of the hedges which were on our farm 200yr ago.
Hedges & trees & wildlife habitats are part of our farm.
It is food AND nature.
It can be done 🌳🥛
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This morning, Uncle Arthur completed his restoration of this boundary. 80m of drystone wall, completely rebuilt from the foundations up. (There’s 5 months between photographs)
It will now last for hundreds of years with barely any maintenance.
Skill and perseverance 👏🏼
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This is our farm.
300ac of steep banks, wet meadows, hay fields, rocky pastures, ancient woodland & ponds, all in small fields surrounded by big hedges.
We can just about make a living for our family.
Every time you shop, you can make a change to the survival of farms like ours.
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A moment of calm in our hay meadows.
The warm weather has really brought them on this week, ox-eye daisies beginning to flower now.
There’s over 100 species of plants in these 3 fields, and each year seems to bring more diversity.
It was buzzing with invertebrates and birdsong 😊
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I could’ve chosen another vocation. I could be sat in an office with warm toes and a vending machine.
But this is what I do, this is the best bit of farming, the endless variations of jobs whatever the weather throws at me 🙂❄️
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Left school in March due to COVID-19 and has worked on the farm almost every day since.
He’s part 16 year old boy, part 6’2” farmer.
He’s learnt almost every aspect of our farm, from hedgelaying to welding to calving a cow.
I’m very proud of the man our Robert is becoming.
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A huge moment for our farm yesterday, the biggest in my lifetime, after waiting 50yrs for any neighbouring land to be sold, we bought 62ac at auction.
So proud to be able to grow Strickley into a position of security for the next generation of my farming family.
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One last check around the cows before I headed up to bed and I noticed some big feet sticking out of Lady Hermione here, a little bit of assistance and out popped (almost literally) a bonny light roan heifer calf.
What a way to end the day ☺️
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Our Robert walking his sheep over Far Banks this morning.
*and I hope you mind me saying, but I think it is one of the finest photographs I have ever taken. Not doctored, no filters, it is exactly as I saw it 🙂
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Mum & Dad had booked to go away on holiday this weekend, but obviously they’re not allowed off farm...
So dad dragged the caravan 1/2 mile down our farm track.
Not too bad a location I reckon ☀️
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Every year I come to our wood, sit down among the bluebells and think to myself, well there never going to be as good as this again.
But every year they are.
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A Sunday morning treat.
Captured on our trailcam yesterday, an adult and cub otter, playing between St Sunday's beck and our pond.
I think this is absolutely bloomin awesome!!
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30yrs ago we created a pond near to the beck, at the same time we fenced off an adjoining ancient oak woodland from livestock.
After about 10 years of natural flooding & erosion, a mature oak fell into the beck, beginning a chain of events which has renaturalised 300m of beck.
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Alongside the 250 head of dairy cattle, our family farm also has,
7 mile ancient hedgerow
3 mile drystone wall
2 mile of becks
7 ac ancient woodland
3 ac newly created woodland
2 ac wildlife pond
Numerous scrapes and wetlands
Nothing’s perfect, but we do our best.
#Februdairy
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I spent most of my childhood messing about by the beck.
The 10 yr old me would’ve loved to know that there would one day be otters rolling around and playing right where I was exploring.
The 45 yr old me is no less excited 😊
Love seeing everything which lives on our farm
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The absolute perfect start to the day!!!
5 days ago Goldie had a bad calving, a huge calf which got wedged in her pelvis. The calf died & she couldn’t stand.
We lifted her twice a day until she built up strength
This morning she stood up on her own and mooed over the gate!😃
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A bit of our farm today, in a corner of Cumbria.
It takes a lot of hard work & money to keep it going. We do what we can for wildlife & habitats, but family farms like ours need your help to survive, we need u to think about what you buy & look for it’s origin.
Ask & be awkward🙏🏼
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Absolutely horrendous views from the tractor seat today….
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Our small 300ac family farm has..
6.5 miles of hedgerow
4.5 mile drystone wall
2.5 mile beck
13 acre ancient hay meadow
2 ac pond
10 ac ancient oak woodland
4 ac species rich moss
Help us to maintain it by supporting UK family farms 🙂
#WorldWildlifeDay2019
#WorldWildifeDay
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Forget all the nonsense that’s happening elsewhere.
It’s a nice day, so come and take a walk with our cows ☀️
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I came across this handsome chap making it’s way back down to the water from our pond.
For those who don’t know, it’s a native white-clawed crayfish and is now rare and very much a protected species.
We are very lucky to have a thriving population to look after on our dairy farm.
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Say hello to my new best mate, who’s begun following us around the fields when we’re out feeding.
We’ve called him Colin
Colin is a dude
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2 yrs ago we bought the farm next door and we’ve spent winter replanting lost hedgerow boundaries, restoring drystone walls & protecting environmentally sensitive areas. But we didn’t know what this tree was until it flowered.
We’re now sure it’s a damson and it’s reet bonny.
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Our wood, one of the most beautiful places I know.
We look after and treasure it. And we know we’re very lucky to have somewhere like this on our farm.
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What’s that you say? It’s the middle of February and I farm in Cumbria, so I couldn’t possibly turn the cows out? 🤔
Hold my beer 😎
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This is me
Farmboy tan and 4 day stubble. A charity shop shirt, freebie hat and a smile that says I’m finally getting the right side of a shit few months.
Thank you to those who have helped and to those who are still helping.
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Over the past 15mth, I’ve struggled with my mental health, so I now walk the cows in for milking, rather than sitting on a noisy quad.
I now see & hear nature, I notice things that I would otherwise miss.
Today it was a brimstone moth, yesterday caterpillars & otter spraint 💚
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A handsome new family member joined us today. Ladies & gentlemen, let me introduce the most handsome puppy in the world, Ronnie!🐶
It’s been a tough day for the little chap, sleep well Ronnie!
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Before we converted to organic management, we were extremely concerned about grass yields.
We needn’t have worried.
No artificial fertilisers for 13yrs
No sprays for 13yrs
Boom 💪🏼
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When the future of our dairy herd is gadding about and looking as healthy as this, I reckon we’ve a fair bit to look forward to.
Happy calves 🙂
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Why walk down the hill, when you can charge down and kick your keels in the air, with your udder swinging side to side.
Be more cow 🐮
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Goldie 236th our best cow, one of the best ever in 150 yrs of pedigree breeding at Strickley. But as of yesterday, she has a tag in her ear to signify bovine tb.
We also had another reactor & 8 inconclusive, having always been tb free until now.
I am gutted, the whole family is.
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I’m going to say goodbye to you all for a bit.
There’s just a too much squabbling on here at the moment and it’s not good for my head.
Take care 💚
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Easter Sunday twin lambs
Born into the sun and with bellies full of milk
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Fetching the cows in on the egde of a thunder storm, lightning all around.
Our little world is insignificant compared to the awesome power and beauty of Mother Nature
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In the late 1980’s, my grandad & dad decided to have a play about in a field, on our farm, with a digger.
35 years later…
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I’ve spent ages waxing and polishing these cows today, please tell me it has been worthwhile…. 🙏🏼
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Here’s an even earlier photo taken just after construction in 1987. We created the pond on an area of unproductive pasture, its water supplied entirely by land drains.
Here’s dad looking down a pipe, as dads do.
Happy Father’s Day dad 👍🏼
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Spent the morning putting up a fox proof electric fence around this curlew nest with
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We wanted to give these iconic birds every chance to hatch. The odds are still stacked against them, but as farmers who manage the land, I think we are obliged to help them.
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Mum, it’s breakfast time
Mum
MUM!!
GET UP MUM IT’S BREAKFAST TIME!!!!
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Newly rebuilt drystone wall around the new gateway. It will last at least 200 years with little or no maintenance.
The limestone gate stoops came from a disused gateway and the walling stone from ploughing and old walls.
Never throw anything away and it will get used eventually!
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Almost finished hedging for winter, some big auld hazels to lig in today & it’s making a reet bonny hedge.
There’s so much negativity across the media about farming. It’d be nice if they gave a bit of time to the good stuff that goes on.
Love hedging, it’s incredibly satisfying
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Whenever we change anything on farm, we think about the impact it may have on wildlife, or if we can possibly change something to improve or create new wildlife habitat, then we will.
The nature which lives here is absolutely as important to me as any cow I have ever bred
#farm24
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I’ve had to add a handwritten note to our new signs (apologies for my awful handwriting)
We’re doing what we can to create and preserve habitats on our farm and welcome visitors to enjoy them too, but it’s not too much to ask folks to keep their dogs on a lead is it?
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Farmers are the most optimistic group of people ever.
Born 5pm tonight, it will be 2 yrs before Hermione enters the milking herd & a further 2 yrs before she returns much profit for the farm (if we’re lucky)
That’s 5 years from the original service
Always playing the long game
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The stress levels for Britain’s dairy cows are off the scale...
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Throwing rubbish over into a field isn’t cool, in fact it’s incredibly irresponsible.
This can has been sliced up by silage making machinery and has created plenty of razor sharp edges ready to slice open a cow’s gut.
Take your rubbish home and recycle it for fucks sake ♻️👊🏼
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Dandelions are not a weed, they are nice.
*don’t @ me 😁
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The Plague Of Froglets 2020
Millions and millions and millions of them around our pond 😃
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A beautiful roan heifer from one of our best ever cows this morning.
I can already tell that she’s going to be a very special calf.
If you’re on the bus or tube, or just need a moment of calm from a Cumbrian barn, turn the sound on too 🙂
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This x 10km = Strickley
We don’t flail hedges, instead managing a 20yr rotation of laying.
Haws, hazels, rosehips, sloes & crabapples for winter wildlife visitors to feast on.
We benefit from the shelter the hedges bring & we benefit from wildlife we see!
* I am a hedge nerd😁
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Apparently there’s stuff happening in Westminster again, but they’re always making a noise about something or other.
So to take your mind off all the waffle, here’s our cows making the final road crossing out to grass before winter housing.
Cows don’t much care for politics
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Talk about hidden talents!!
4 days ago my wonderful wife Michelle picked up a paint brush for the first time in our 19 years together....
I’m absolutely astonished and incredibly proud 😊
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Seen from my tractor this morning
Blackbird
Starling
Fieldfare
Snipe
Dunnock
House sparrow
Pheasant
Rook
Crow
Blue/Great/Coal tit
Buzzard
Dipper
Chaffinch
Robin
Collared dove
WoodPigeon
Tree creeper
Wren
Magpie
Mallard
Jay
Heron
Pied wagtail
It’s all there, you just need 2 look
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I’m not going to watch that programme on BBC1 tonight, I know what it’s going to show
It’s not going to show how UK livestock farms have shaped our countryside, every hedge, drystone wall & tree, with pasture sequestering carbon
Farming is at the centre of all rural communities
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A moment of birdsong & bluebells in our wood this evening 🙂
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Only a few hours old and already looking like a winner.
After a pretty rubbish few weeks it was great to wake up to a brand new member of the Strickley Fillpail family.
Proper bonny eh 💚
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She’s been stood like this for the past 10 minutes.
And why not eh?! 🤩
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There are one or two perks to this dairy farming job....
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Two hours old, what a view to greet you into the world.
To be born a Cumbrian is to win the lottery of life.
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Fetching some more cows in for the winter.
Judging by the fact she’s as wide as she is long, I reckon Abigail has twins in her.
Wide load 🚧
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Ours boys have just come back from the dentist, she asked them what they had as a snack at school.
“I have a pint of milk at break time”
To which the dentist said, “well you shouldn’t, milk is 20% sugar and is as bad as any other sugary drink!!”
I mean, what the actual fuck 😠
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I took this photo of Ronnie on my phone a few weeks ago when we had some snow and then totally forgot about it.
He’s quite a handsome fellow.
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Having a walk around the stock before bed. No filter, just a Cumbrian sky.
Goodnight all
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Lady Hermione 26th turning grass into organic milk.
We haven’t used artificial fertilisers or pesticides for 15yrs, Hermione’s entire life has been on lush homegrown forage.
Behind her is one of our many hedgerows providing shelter for the herd & valuable habitats for wildlife
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How stunning is this?! 135m of drystone wall rebuilt by Uncle Arthur, each stone placed with thought & care to ensure at least 200yr with little maintenance.
He’s also put a time capsule in this section to tell the story of the work that’s being done.
See you in the year 2222!
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Plenty of straw bedding ✔️
Milk twice a day ✔️
Fresh food & water ✔️
Warm jackets ✔️
An igloo to live in with your mates✔️
I think I’ll move in....
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We are TB free!!
So relieved to get through again, but my heart really does go out to those farms constantly affected.
A massive thanks to all at Team Strickley for doing a great job today.
Steak & beers tonight 😊
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We are TB clear 🙏
All cattle at Strickley have passed their mandatory TB test today, and I can’t tell you how relieved we all are that we are clear.
It’s been a long day already, I’m away for a sit down 😊
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Our tree polishing service hard at work this morning 💪🏼
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Born just before milking tonight 3.45pm, a plonking big pure white heifer calf.
She’s the latest member of the Strickley Goldie family, which goes back over 90 years here.
They are a wonderful family of cows, every one a great asset to our farm.
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Ronnie looks innocent.
Ronnie is not innocent.
Ronnie rolled in something dead,
Very dead.
Now Ronnie smells,
A lot.
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The perfect start to a Christmas Day and a brand new member of the Goldie family. Born 5.45am with a bit of help from me and our Robert.
Happy Christmas to all!
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Goldie 217th calved her 10th calf on Thursday evening, a cracking heifer calf by Gorbro Stormy Jon. Certainly one to look out for in the future!
Goldie was looking grand last night when I went to bed, but this morning I woke to a health notification on my phone ⚠️ 🚑
Cont…
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Quick walk round the cows before bedtime and I saw two huge feet sticking out of Abigail here.
With a bit of family teamwork we soon had the big chap delivered onto a comfy bed and fed with colostrum.
Job well done 💪🏼
Good night all! 🛏
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We moved our Robert’s sheep onto fresh grass today, which also happens to have a footpath crossing it.
Hoping the personal touch has hit the right tone.
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I used to think that our cows were our farm’s biggest asset, but I now realise that it’s the farmed landscape
If we want folk to back us, we have to give them a reason, we have to distance ourselves from monoculture landscapes & show them a diverse, healthy livestock environment
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BREAKING NEWS.....
South Cumbrian farmer wins Britain’s Got Talent with his mini cow balancing act...
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I’m lucky, I’m privileged.
The summer solstice sunrise over the cattle sheltering under an ancient oak.
No one has such a tie to land and a sense of place as a farmer.
Lucky and privileged ☀️
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Uncle Arthur progressing really well with the new length of drystone wall he’s rebuilding.
He’s taking it all right back to the foundations, relaying them correctly is key to the wall lasting for over 200 years.
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St Sunday’s beck is looking amazing right now
We are lucky to have over a mile and a half of it flowing through our farm. The white-water crowfoot will soon be a mass of flowers and I reckon this year it’s going to be better than ever 🙂
*Sound on for some pure chill 💚
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Some great crops of grass for our first cut silage. 18 years of organic farming has done only good things for us. Our soils are healthier, we aren’t exposed to crazy world prices for artificial fertilisers & sprays and it’s a far better way to farm for the environment and nature.
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70% of the UK is farmland, that means as farmers we have an opportunity to do more than anyone else to improve the environment and wildlife in the countryside.
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Aching in every joint, eyes full of dust, stinging. Tired, so friggin tired.
We’ve just finished 2nd cut silage, with just me & dad to do everything, including milking & all other farm stuff.
Oh, & we did 15ac hay too.
A rare selfie cos I think we deserve a cheerleader today ✊🏼
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What the world needs on this Sunday afternoon isn’t news of the ongoing brexit negotiations or Trump’s meddling on import tariffs.
No, what the world needs is Abigail enjoying the cowbrush.
You’re welcome 🙂
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New dropped bull calf, a big dozy roan lad who needed a little pull to hep him out.
The cow licking the calf not only cleans him, it also stimulates him to breathe and move, and provides herself with valuable protein and energy.
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Our modest 300ac family farm
6.5m hedgerow
4.2m drystone wall
1.2m watercourse
11ac woodland
5ac moss
13ac wildflower meadow
2ac pond
Everything we do is managed for food production AND environmental protection & improvement
Always has been
Always will be
#WorldEnvironmentDay
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🚧Caution. Heavy traffic on the Kendal to Kirkby Lonsdale road this morning 🚧
Drivers are advised to turn off their engines and admire the view 🙂
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The first ducklings I’ve seen this year, 10 little floating balls of fluff chasing after a very proud mother duck.
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Opening a new bale of hay is like switching the summer sunshine on again.
Every grass and herb preserved like they were just baled yesterday.
I love it, the heifers love it, I just wish someone would invent smelly twitter for you to enjoy it too!
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