I distinctly remember coming home to my dad and saying "we need to stop using fertiliser" and the response was volcanic to say the least. "we can't stop using fertiliser, how would we grow anything" plus a few explicits as can happen when you start to delve into a system that had long before my time been relied on to do that very important job of growing food!

By focusing on the health of ourselves as a family and our customers through our direct sales business this enables us to make better decisions for the overall health of our business as well, and give us that much needed longevity to still be here farming in 20 years’ time, for those who want locally sourced grass fed beef and lamb.

Long has it been known that many farming families in the western world hope for a son to come along to take on and run the family business. If that son happens to be the oldest and they want to stay and farm, then I guess it makes it a much easier decision.

 Unless that is you’re the eldest child in a farming family and you’re a girl

Let’s let the government get on with their plans to try and destroy the industry for their ill gotten gains, whilst we take things back into our own hands, and literally wash our hands of them. So then when the shit hits the proverbial fan which it could do in my life time, we can be the ones they come crying to with their tail between their legs, because they have an over crowded island and they no longer know how to feed everyone.