From the start it has been our aim to prove that farming with conservation can be successful! With endless challenges such as extreme weather conditions, foot and mouth, blue tongue and more; It is certainly a challenge to make a living and yet keep these ideals as our vision.

The farm is very diverse with good grade 2 red soil, old pastures and Culm grass with river flats beside the Little Dart River. This diversity allows for a mixed traditional system and becoming organic further allowed this development. There are four fields in an arable rotation growing oats, barley, pearl barley whole crop, triticale and a short term clover - key to building good fertility.

Being virtually self-sufficient is a good thing. We have a mill-mix in the barn to process food. rolled corn for cattle and sheep, rolled barley meal for the pigs, and wholegrain for chickens.

Arable fields that are organic allow rare arable weeds to grow which provide food for birds like the skylark and yellow hammers. Hedges are laid on a ten year rotation, to provide nuts and berries for dormice and the birds. The Culm grassland is a special place with orchids, devils-bit scabious and many rare marshy plants and now a County Wildlife site. The farm has many large trees and we have the generations before us to thank for that.