We recently travelled to west Wales to collect these beautiful 15 month old British White heifers. Flotsam and Furlong will form the basis of our new suckler herd. Next year is a big year here for us as we begin a generational succession process which can be a really tricky time for both generations. As my father Duncan begins retirement I will be leasing about 30 acres to transition to an agroecological and regenerative mixed farm system.

We have three core aims that we will be working towards:

Increase biodiversity on our farm

Increase sustainability on our farm

Welcome more visitors to our farm.

We chose the British White breed as we want to focus on farming rare native breed cattle and we believe farming with British Whites can help us achieve these three core aims. Native breed cattle are well adapted to our UK climate, they require less bought in feed, and can be finished more slowly on grass. This means less food miles, and less reliance on volatile global supply chains. Although this may take a little longer we believe its worth the time.

By choosing to support rare breeds we can help to keep diversity with in our cattle breeds- not only that these guys are super resilent to heat, as well as tough enough to be outwintered. This means we can operate an adaptive, multi paddock grazing system which improves soil health, climate resilience and helps us sequester as much carbon as we can. It also helps us to produce really great, regeneratively farmed beef. Which will only be available in small radius from the farm. Hopefully all this means a win all round, farming in a way that feels sustainable and kind for us, and great locally produced meat from a farm you can visit and actually know where your meat comes from.