[Anke]

I finally got my hands on "Our Wild Farming Life" by Lynn Cassells and Sandra Baer ( I asked the library to buy it and they did!). Though I may just have to put it on my birthday list... as it looks like one of those books you go back to an re-read when it seems you are stuck with your own smallholding...


Just a brilliant, uplifting and though-provoking book, and I am only half-way through... there is also a youtube video (filmed by Huw Richards), and I am tempted to schedule our next holiday weekend away to coincide with one of their farm tours...


I haven't seen the BBC series (as don't have a TV and refuse to pay a licence, so no i-player either).

[Rosemary]

That's Lynbreck Croft? I did their farm tour. Interesting. Lovely area - good farmers' market in Grantown on a Sunday morning 

[Anke]

That's Lynbreck Croft? I did their farm tour. Interesting. Lovely area - good farmers' market in Grantown on a Sunday morning 

Yes it is Lynbreck.

[Steph Hen]

Could you maybe tell us a little more about it please? Is it a rewilding project?

[Anke]

Could you maybe tell us a little more about it please? Is it a rewilding project?

No it's regenerative farming, a couple of girls went and bought a croft of 150 acres in the Cairngorms and are now farming with Highland cattle, laying hens and pigs. So it is quite similar to rewilding in that they do not treat their pastures and use the pigs etc to regenerate the soil, mob grazing...


Their website is at [size=78%]Regenerative Wilder Farming | Lynbreck Croft[/size]


Just sounds really interesting and we are planning on (hopefully) our summer break coinciding with one of their farm tours

[doganjo]

I watched them on This Farming Life a couple of years ago They started with very little knowledge.