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With the amount of change going on at the moment it is sometimes difficult to know where to turn, especially when it comes to planning the future of a rural business. One of my personal challenges over the next six or so years is to adapt my family’s business in Essex, based on 700 acresContinue reading “Recent news”

‘We live in interesting times’. I find this phrase to be somewhat timeless given that, whatever generation we are born into, ‘times’ are always ‘interesting’, given that the world is always in flux. If the world and society didn’t change then life and time would not be what they are. However, this said, it isContinue reading “Keep Calm and Carry On”

Have you ever found yourself asking yourself this question? Is there ever such a thing as perfect weather at the right time? Perhaps not. As I write this I’m looking out at a snowy landscape…still. This time last week it felt as if Spring were around the corner with bright blue skies, birds singing andContinue reading “When will the weather change?”

I began this year with optimism, a new set of goals, a hopeful wish for new experiences and a determination to put 2020 firmly in the past and make the most of each and every day this year. In personal terms, society terms, global health terms and farming terms 2020 was a year of upheaval,Continue reading “A new year…really?”