Love your honesty on the realities of rewilding and how you make it work - and the latest lamb and mum happy in their own environment.

Oh no typical. But lovely to see around the fields. Lots of lovely insects.

I think your farm is wonderful and so natural!

I think your farm is wonderful

I think it’s amazing, you had a dream and a plan and we’ve been privileged to have watched the successes and the pitfalls and the adjustments you have made and will continue to make and I have complete respect. I love the idea of rewilding, but I have to admit it gives me massive anxiety when it’s not in ‘controlled’ parcels of land, plus I am only one half of a farm that still needs to make some money (feels like that just gets spent on fences but hey ho) We get stick because we don’t trim our hedges, so you must get that x10 Please keep doing what you are doing, unapologetically, what you learn we can learn too and I bloody love watching your farm evolve and grow x

Thank you for sharing what you do. It is inspiring to see someone who cares so much about their land and their animals and who manages such a large space in such a low impact way. We are about to move to a comparatively small patch of land (around 11 acres) in Lincolnshire and have very similar principles to yours. We will be working on a much smaller scale with far fewer animals but I’m still learning so much watching you. I’m interested in the comments from those that criticise - - nothing is ever black and white and land management is such a controversial topic - we’ve been researching a lot recently and there are so many opposing views and so many people quick to criticise others without understanding. We can only do what we truly believe is best for our own contexts and you are a wonderful example of someone willing to share this journey - and someone able to make changes in response to what you experience - so much more nuanced than having a singular approach that you refuse to deviate from like so many people on the internet!

You are doing an outstanding job!

You may have to rethink the fences at tupping time. lol

Hi Geoff. Great to see the place and for you to reiterate your farming philosophy. Yes free range as far as possible for us up here. We are classified as a 'less favoured area.' We have 'inbye land and moorland grazing rights. We are in that respect, similar to you. Glad you found the lamb and ewe. Best wishes. Jacob and Johnny. 🧔 🐶 🤓

I love the way you farm

Hi,I live not far from you.I’ve been subbed for a long while, since you had your mid terrace. Also a quail and chicken keeper and breeder, although less now. I have a lot of omelet netting both types.. no longer needed as I’m down to 5 hens. Would it be useful to you?

What’s your plan for when you die? As some other farmer might just buy your land, chop down the trees and dig over the land. Making your wild farm back in a traditional farm.

When all goes well it is beautifull, but they still are domesticated animals with an owner. She lambed without help and that is very good, she lambed without you knowing where she was and so no help was available had she needed it. Bad. Please sit down and look very critically at what the definition of natural means for your domesticated lifestock and their needs. They have an owner and therefore someone who is responsible for their wellbeing, safety and health in a way that nature is not. And yes i see a lot of poached land with less plant diversity then some good regenerative management should have. Could be transition, could be you are missing something. Question yourself, question the ideal of "natural", a lot of misery is "natural", maintaining a certain balance requires some human action, just not a big machine or poison. And you'll need to maintain a balance even if it isn't totally static to keep both lifestock and wildlife fed. That may mean mowing areas that are monoculture plant patches due to how your animals graze and even more shocking it may mean a critcal look at how many predators your area can sustainably feed. I have seen results of "nature making" over here. Crashed plant diversity and left no food, shelter and such for all kinds of small stuff it should have helped. You are restricted space wise and that means some processes will not function as hoped. Be critical of the ideals and principles of how to get there and look really hard at what the land wants, does and needs. And no it doesn't need to be producing optimally humanfood wise, it still needs diversity and active management to not become a predator pit or deadzone due to letting natures feast and famine cycles run amok. Your land is no way near big enough to stabilize without you stepping up.

Huh! Many farmers are no different from a cheap garage on a side street, leaving oil and equipment all over the road! These garage owners are always scraping by, working too hard and more often, just to get that final penny from the punters that he absolutely needs. Back to your endeavour (or "farming-concern" as I call such a situation), you have a cleaner, more natural "gararge"! Folk (the customers) see you as a qualified professional and not a jack of all trades. They'd rather go to you than the greese monkey up the road. Fella, you are doing alrght. No different from myself that now see how badly thjngs around me are run. With them, always chasing a cheap subsidy and cutting corners to save money. THEY have forgotten, or never had the respect and love of what they do. To be frank, anyone today that looks at your 30-plus acre concern and 'tuts' can shut up and look at themselves. Your business abilities, however, are hilariously off kilter, but only because you dont run for the nearest loan to set you up. Mate! You are doing just fine. Now... how's your decking coming along? 😂

I think it’s amazing, you had a dream and a plan and we’ve been privileged to have watched the successes and the pitfalls and the adjustments you have made and will continue to make and I have complete respect. I love the idea of rewilding, but I have to admit it gives me massive anxiety when it’s not in ‘controlled’ parcels of land, plus I am only one half of a farm that still needs to make some money (feels like that just gets spent on fences but hey ho) We get stick because we don’t trim our hedges, so you must get that x10 Please keep doing what you are doing, unapologetically, what you learn we can learn too and I bloody love watching your farm evolve and grow x