Jeni Parsons lives on a farm in West Camarthenshire with her husband, Rob. Jeni’s is an interesting story as she came late to the farming world after re-marrying, taking early retirement and buy-in 11 acres and a derelict clom (mud) house in West Wales to begin Smallholding. Neither of them had farmed before though they … [Read more…]
History has been made this week with the first female being elected as President of the National Farming Union. Much has been made of it. Farming is still a very male-dominated industry. For just over a year, I have been trying to highlight the brilliant jobs women do in the industry in my Women In … [Read more…]
Emma Watkin lives on a 100 acre farm with her husband in Suffolk. She met her husband Tobias through a dating website as neither of them were into going out clubbing. While Emma did not grow up on a farm herself, both of her grandparents are from a farming family so they were very pleased … [Read more…]
Chloe Williams runs a popular facebook group and shop called The Crazy Life of a Farmer’s Wife. She lives on a farm with her husband, Ben and two children just outside Skenfrith, Monmouthshire. She grew up in a town but she says she has always had the countryside at heart. “We had many farming friends … [Read more…]
At the end of last December, I wrote a post looking back at my most popular blog posts of 2016. I have decided to write on again this year, because sometimes it brings up a few surprises-ones I wouldn’t usually expect to do as well as they did. My most popular post, by far was … [Read more…]
What started out as a hobby rearing ten turkeys has grown into a successful family business for smallholder Jade Stock, who now raises more than 200 birds for the festive season. Jade is mum to Grace, 5, Tom, 3 and Darcey, 1 so she certainly has her hands full and is a first generation farmer. … [Read more…]
Gifts for farm women (and men) can be really difficult. People automatically thing thing like socks, gloves, scarves and other cold weather wear will be a waste of time because everyone will buy them. In my own experience, this is not true at all. Working outdoors makes clothes wear faster. I am not sure why. … [Read more…]
Catherine Baddeley lives in Devon, with her husband Chris, their two young boys Hamish and Digby and Pumba their spaniel. They moved back to Devon, where Catherine grew up, about four years ago after living in Bristol for seven years. Catherine said once she had the children, her priorities changed and she wanted to try … [Read more…]
Fiona Garrett is a 37 years old, first generation farmer living in County Derry, Northern Ireland. She lives with her partner and non farmer David, three children ranging from 20 months to 15 years old and two Springer Spaniels- Megan and Paddy the puppy. They live on the edge of Learmount Forest on a 50 … [Read more…]
Clare Hall is a farmers wife living in Buckinghamshire. She met her farmer four years ago completely by chance when she was moving out of a rented farmhouse. He was moving in and they met on her last day when, she says she was in her ‘cleaning clothes’ and (her words) looked dreadful when a … [Read more…]
