5.39pm - Sunday 9th July 2023 6,282

Getting the lambs from stainmore back here to be shorn tomorrow, when your shearing sheep you want them dry and the weather was about to turn thundery, got them off just in time. John came and helped us with his dogs which saved a lot of running around for us so thanks John it was a huge help.

When I have the dog trained it will be a huge relief to us to have the confidence to get up there and do it myself, this next week Nel is starting work. So I’m on the Valtra with the Marshall stock box behind it’s been a godsend moving stock recently

in 2009 i had no experience of farming or the realities that came with it. That soon changed when I met my other half Roy, I had a job as a carer and in every spare moment threw myself into farming. I had only ever driven a Nissan Micra and had experience with horses, I learnt the hard way as nobody had the time to show me and soon after arriving I found myself mothering on calves to three quarter bred limmy cows. We spent every available moment on the farm between our day jobs. Fast forward to 2016 two children later we moved into our very own farm overlooking the northern Pennines, Laitha.

we are in a transitional period at present and will finally be milking cows and making the final switch later this year, after years of planning and implementing infrastructure we will be milking 120 Jersey cows on two Lely robots. This will be a huge change and a steep learning curve

I will be taking you all along for the ride so hit that subscribe button and see you every other day for farming vlogs.

I am overjoyed to be a farmer. I feel so fortunate every day to wake up and do what I love and even better share it with the world and hope it inspires more young people from Preston to spread their wings and think outside the box the world doesn’t need more childcare workers or hairdressers it needs more farmers.

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