Spring is here - hurrah!  To celebrate, I've been thinking about some of the best aspects of the season here, but also remembering some of the bad.  There are so many highs and lows of life on a farm that it is impossible to pick a 'top' or 'bottom' three, so here is...

 Why to keep them

1. Shetland ewes make fantastic mothers  They are prolific, lamb easily and almost always bond immediately.  Of all the lambs born into the Stokehill flock, only one was not accepted by his mother.  This was because he managed to escape from his pen (...

When I started talking about opening up the farm to visitors, this was the commonest reponse from friends and family, which only served to add another furrow in my brow  - yes, I would muse, what will they actually do?

But soon I would come back to...