Loopy Ewes

Ever wanted to see how we farm for yourself? We have just opened a small, nature-friendly campsite on the farm with tipis and tent pitches, so you can meet the flock that provides the beautiful wool for my knitwear.

Do not feed these industries. They are parasites slowly sucking the life out of and then killing our family farms, our soils, our environments and then keeping all the spoils for themselves. #GoOrganic let's start a shift and starve these parasites to death.

@agentmary @EmilyBaah @sheepinstitches @woolismybread @Arnbeg @BarnacreAlpacas @barklandcroft @HayleyHammy @ZwartblesIE @highfieldsherdy @EnnoFarm 😂🙌

Sheep smile @EmilyBaah @sheepinstitches @woolismybread @Arnbeg @BarnacreAlpacas @barklandcroft @HayleyHammy @ZwartblesIE @highfieldsherdy @LoopyEwes @EnnoFarm

@howemill @kuantancurls @Johnstons_Elgin @TheHirsel Thanks for the shout out 🙌

@kuantancurls @Johnstons_Elgin @TheHirsel It’s incredible stiff. And the work @LoopyEwes is doing down south to prove British breeds can produce lovely soft woolly jumpers is 👌

Having lived in NE Scotland for 5 years I finally went to @Johnstons_Elgin for a tour today. Fascinating stuff, highly recommend. (would have been even better if there was more Scottish wool involved).

@glirarium @cornishgrill @BenGoldsmith Absolutely - as with any enterprise!

I’m in Transylvania, where extraordinarily vibrant wood pastures grazed by horned cattle (and a few sheep admittedly) stretch unfenced to the horizon in every direction. Much of Britain once was like this. Dramatic nature recovery and food production can go hand-in-hand.

Look at that cracking fleece. She’s spent the last 5 months growing a strong, healthy lamb on 100% pasture and still puts out fibre like that 🐏💪🤎.

@niels_corfield @FarmersGuardian @piggy_jags We have a lot of barns and if we could capture the water that runs off them it could be used to support activities such as a market garden. Anyone have a link to the gov page about this?

@FarmersGuardian @piggy_jags Any of this going towards soil health improvement? Will store more water, more efficiently than any fixed infrastructure

£40m in funding for water storage 💧 More than £40m of funding is being made available to farmers to help manage slurry storage and store water more efficiently. bit.ly/3Mk1GDk

Any thoughts on how much worse the wet weather is going to get in the South of England? We lamb outdoors on wet ground starting in a week. We could do indoors, but it would come at a big financial cost & I’d be gutted if I made that jump, then a week later the weather improves 🤦‍♀️

@mendipfarmer Farm B definitely for me. Can’t imagine ever clearing that debit over a lifetime.

@herdyshepherd1 😂🤣

I’m going to buy a cow luv… One cow? Yeh, just one cow Are you sure? Yeh, trust me How many cows have we got? A few How many? Erm

@DrDowhittle 😂🤦‍♀️❤️

@mendipfarmer But wasn’t it originally more about producing enough rather than subsidising the cost to buy?

@mendipfarmer Food would have to become a lot more expensive. In my opinion subsidies don’t underpin farmers - they underpin a cheap food system.

Episode 2 out now … Leather is controversial in sustainable fashion conversations. The cattle industry gets labelled as one of the big emitters of methane & leather manufacturing uses toxic chemicals that pollute the environment - but this isn’t the only way to produce leather.

I feel very blessed to have this amazing community in my life. Our wonderful South West England Fibreshed is made up of the most inspiring women (and a few men of course!). You can hear about our work in the latest @farmerama_radio podcast. Full details below 👇

@mendipfarmer @ArdrossFarm @PastureForLife @EdinvaleFarm @howemill @andyrumming We’ve only been certified a year so probably takes time.

@EdinvaleFarm @mendipfarmer @PastureForLife @howemill @andyrumming We were hoping it would help us sell our lamb and beef through butchers and wholesale but that’s not really paid off yet unfortunately … I think our organic certification will mean more to the general public for reassurance on animal and environmental welfare.

@mendipfarmer @PastureForLife @howemill @andyrumming For me it was to get confirmation of what we were mostly doing to assure our customers. To get a point of difference and help tell our story. But most importantly broaden the thinking we are exposed to. Basically i am looking to get more tools with which to farm.

@EdinvaleFarm @mendipfarmer @PastureForLife @howemill @andyrumming Yes - agree with above. There’s a lot of learning opportunities like farm walks and online seminars (which we struggle to take advantage of unfortunately due to day jobs, kids and family logistics).

Wishing ewe a Merry Christmas from the flock and I 🎄🎅🏻 xx

We still have turkeys available! find your local turkey farmer and support them, sales dropped off a cliff when the bird flu in turkeys story hit the headlines and I think people rushed out and bought frozen. @NFU_Poultry @BBCWiltshire @BBCFoodProg @BBCFarmingToday @BBCr4today