Karen's farm is really a smallholding of seven acres comprising of very small meadows that once would have been used to grow daffodils. They were beginning to get overgrown, and in some cases totally overgrown, with blackthorn, bramble and bracken shoulder high. So I rented the fields and set about restoring them to pasture. Because they are so small they have no use to your average commercial farmer.
Today I keep bees, chickens, geese for Christmas, pigs and three Whitebred Shorthorn cows. I love all my animals and aim to give them a happy life before they are dispatched.
The cows are very dear to me because they form a very small dairy herd and so are for the long term. This breed of cow is critically endangered with only 152 registered females in the world. My three are called Daisy, Buttercup and Primrose. Daisy is now a milking cow. They are an old English dual purpose breed. I am developing this breed with Gerald Babcock of Pendeen who has six other Whitebred Shorthorn cows and a bull. His is a suckler herd reared for beef.
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