We practice nature friendly farming through:

- Managing our livestock's grazing times to create diverse pastures with lots of flowers and seeds for insects and birds. No artificial fertilizer is applied

- managing low numbers of cattle grazing extensive hill land  and woodland pasture to create a mosaic of habitats. Low enough numbers to allow natural regeneration, but enough grazing to create open areas, scrub and heathland

- Improving our soils, leaving long rest periods between grazing and adding organic matter naturally, reducing compaction and improving drainge

-  Sequestering carbon by planting hedgerows and tress, and improving soil organic carbon

- Removing invasive species from our farmland such as himalayan balsalm and rhododendron which smothers natural vegetation

We do not:

-use artificial fertilisers 

-use pesticides 

-plough soils

Our animals eat what is naturally available to them across the land we rent. They browse on species rich grassland, herbs and woodland pasture.

They don't get any feed containing grains, GM produce, nor Soya, at any point in their life.

Practicing conservation grazing means our cattle get a varied environment with different challenges. Sometimes they are on floodplain meadows, sometimes they are finding ivy to browse in woodlands, and at other times they are exploring in the uplands between peat bogs and bracken!

Whilst the sheep stay on our home farm we still have areas of scrub, river edges, rocky hillocks (or 'boncyn' in Welsh) and woodland for them to explore.

Our sheep and cattle live outdoors all year round.

We are lucky to have an excellent small family abbatoir less than 30 minutes away, which reduces transport time for our animals. 

Pasture-fed meat and milk has:

Lower total fat levels

Higher levels of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA)

Higher vitamin and mineral levels than meat or milk from grain-fed animals

Higher levels of Omega-3