5.42pm - Thursday 7th March 2024 9,863

Got a few days in the middle of TB testing the cattle. We have been working in the new dairy unit dairy unit putting together the cubicles. These are four from Condon engineering which is an Irish firm who work alongside mayo mattresses which is where we’ve got our mattresses from. Yes I know we probably should have put the mattresses in first, but we haven’t as the cubicles are here and the mattresses are not and we had the short window of time when there are no workmen with us in the shed so we could get on with something that we could do ourselves. Rick is open evening in Carlisle where the kids take over YouTube and give you a look around. I went here with Alan Richard and Isla good friends of ours and the pies were amazing. In fact I might go tonight again just for another pie, Rickaby sell a lot of class stuff, so no surprise everything was very lime, green impressive turnout it was really busy so loads of people we knew had a good crack back to work though.

in 2009 i had no experience of farming or the realities that came with it. That soon changed when I met my other half Roy, I had a job as a carer and in every spare moment threw myself into farming. I had only ever driven a Nissan Micra and had experience with horses, I learnt the hard way as nobody had the time to show me and soon after arriving I found myself mothering on calves to three quarter bred limmy cows. We spent every available moment on the farm between our day jobs. Fast forward to 2016 two children later we moved into our very own farm overlooking the northern Pennines, Laitha.

we are in a transitional period at present and will finally be milking cows and making the final switch later this year, after years of planning and implementing infrastructure we will be milking 120 Jersey cows on two Lely robots. This will be a huge change and a steep learning curve

I will be taking you all along for the ride so hit that subscribe button and see you every other day for farming vlogs.

I am overjoyed to be a farmer. I feel so fortunate every day to wake up and do what I love and even better share it with the world and hope it inspires more young people from Preston to spread their wings and think outside the box the world doesn’t need more childcare workers or hairdressers it needs more farmers.

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