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Category: Dorset Farming

FCN – always there to walk with you

Rebecca Hill explains how the FCN blends farming expertise and professional support networks to bolster the farming community’s resilience That’s me over on the right...

Five generations of wellies at the door

Tracie Beardsley catches up with renowned Dorset farmer Wakely Cox, whose family have farmed in Puddletown for almost a century Outside the farmhouse door, wellington...

Future Farmer:13-year-oldSeb Carr

When Seb was eight he received four pigs for Christmas. Now he has one of the largest pedigree herds of the rare British Saddleback...

Celebrating Dorset sustainability: the Love Local Trust Local Awards are open to all Dorset farmers, fishermen and food producers

The Love Local Trust Local Awards are proud to recognise and celebrate small, independent Dorset producers and businesses. Entering the Love Local Trust Local...

Badgers and TB:farm frustration

Trying NOT to bang on again about the weather, George Hosford presents a candid look at the farming community’s battle with TB instead There was...

Future Farmer: 5-year-old Giles Apsey.

Giles was a year old when Fluffy was born – she was one of a triplet who needed to be bottle fed. He took...

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Happy Times (the busy life of a retired event horse)

Retired event horses enjoy a life just as varied as when they competed, says ex-Head Girl Mouse Berry. Since retiring in 2018, top five- star...

Shooting from the saddle

As winter drags on, mud and headtorches give way to arrows and adrenaline as Tamsin Doar discovers the addictive pull of horseback archery Although spring...

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