John Holman welcomes you to Edition 21 of Farm Radio
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Click on the signpost to find your way to "Chalk and Cheese" and "Levels and Moors" items.
|  A new farm shop was opened recently at the much-visited National Trust property, Stourhead, recently. This project represents an interesting partnership between the Trust and some of its tenants and could provide a model way for farmers to work with the Trust in other areas. Roger Crisp went to look into the story. Another aspect of this project is featured in the story on the Stourhead Meat Cutting Plant, also on this page.
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 Jackson House started out as an agricultural contractor but, as he tells Helen Wallbridge, he soon began to specialise in the creation of ponds and lakes, something that he has been engaged in for the last fifty years.
Contact:Hillside Mill, Stoford, Yeovil, Somerset. BA22 9TP.
01935 433358 |  Roger Crisp ventured west across the border into Wales to talk to Hopkin Smith of Cwrt Celyn Farm in the Taff Valley about his diversification into quad bikes and the opportunities it has presented to keep the family farm going and for Hopkin to explore his obvious talent for working with youngsters.
Contact: Hopkin Smith, Cwrt Celyn Farm, Eglwysilan, Rhydyfelin, Glamorganshire.
02920 831658 www.adventurewales.co.uk |  Reknowned west country poet, James Crowden, reads his poem for August from his collection, “Blood, Earth and Medecine, a year in the life of a casual agricultural labourer. There is a poem for each month and they will appear on Farm Radio in their turn.
Contact:website
Phone:01460 30795 |
