We’ve won an award! Our farm has just been announced as the annual sustainable farming Whitegrove Trophy Competition 2013 winners. We are absolutely thrilled with this recognition of our ethics, principals and interests, and what we have managed to achieve under them. Our native South Devon cattle, including Lewis-the-Showstopper bull, and our growing flock of commercial sheep are grazed extensively and on a rotation, which in conjunction with our arable land management, has created a commercial farm that is rich and varied in natural habitats, and above all, healthy.
We’ve got patches of wet grazing and marsh, ancient woodland and tons of hedges, which aren’t your typical productive farm features, but our stock are our measure of success, and thankfully this award has highlighted how we have made it work. A tradition with the Whitegrove Trophy is a farm walk in the spring for local farmers, land managers, and those that are interested, with the intention of extending the knowledge and experience base of sustainable farming. If you want to come and see what we have done, and how we are doing it, then please do get in touch, and we’ll see if the spring walk can accommodate more.