‘Meat,animals and dairy have been in the firing line for so long that in some circles, the assumption is taken for granted that there is no case, ever, anywhere, to be made for the role of animals in farming, land care or diet. This book is a wonderful and challenging correction’

#fortyfarms Our Farm - Simon Rogan
He is also keen to further the operation’s sustainability credentials: “No matter how sustainable we are, there’s always more. We’re nearly at zero-waste, but we want to look at going off-grid, creating our own power & harvest rainwater as well

#fortyfarms - Our Farm, Simon Rogan
Growing locally not only allowed Simon to add unique ingredients to the L’Enclume menu, it also helped secure supply, reflect seasonality and reduce the restaurant’s food miles.

#fortyfarms Our Farm - Simon Rogan
Simon Rogan’s name is a mainstay.” It has never been enough for him simply to cook great food. Instead, his mission is to grow 100% of the food in his restaurants on-site. Not quite there yet, vast majority of L’Enclume’s menu is from Our Farm.

#fortyfarms Beckside
The expansion of Beckside’s dairy herd has
not only increased farm turnover and profit, but ammonia emissions have been cut and animal welfare, particularly teat health, improved.

#fortyfarms Beckside Farm
Naysayers could do worse than visit Beckside, where 29-year-old Patrick Morris-Eyton and his family are spearheading a quiet revolution in data-driven, green energy-fuelled dairy farming centred on one of the world’s most advanced milking systems.

#fortyfarms Turner Hall Farm
Anthony Hartley is King of the Herdwicks. His tups been crowned ‘World Champion Herdwick’ at the Eskdale Show in 2020 & 2021. He made headlines in 2020 when a Turner Hall tup sold at Cockermouth auction mart for around £18,900 a record for the breed.

#fortyfarms Susans Farm
Entering the Sustainable Farm Incentive (SFI) to increase funding, she's planting shelterbelt hedges, fruit trees & a plug plant every m/sq in the wildlife meadow; she has gifted a nearby pocket of land, vulnerable to development, to Cumbria Wildlife Trust

#fortyfarms Susans Farm
10 years from now, Susan wants her namesake farm to be championing her two passions: organic food production & education. Even as she eyes the next chapter in Susan’s Farm’s history, its enigmatic founder, who doesn’t mention retirement, is full of plans.

#fortyfarms Susans Farm
Latterly, the farm has become a refuge and lifeline
for some of the county’s most vulnerable young people.

#fortyfarms Susans Farm
The beating heart of this farm is not meat, honey or manure – it’s people. For more than 20 yrs, Susan’s Farm has welcomed schoolchildren in their 1,000's for a taste of farm life.

I'm delivering snippets of stories of change across the working landscapes of Cumbria this week. If you want to know more about the farms we mention you can buy my book Forty Farms.
Signed copies available here amybatemanphotography.com/store/forty-fa…

#fortyfarms - Holker Farm St James' Cheese
'We’d made a business that was outward-looking & would compete on quality on the same terms as European farmers. Did all this work, then fucking Brexit, and now trading in Europe is like doing it with your arms tied behind your back.'