Colin was not from farming but after a love for livestock at a young age Colin pursued a career in veterinary medicine. A few jobs, a wedding to another vet and a placement in Tanzania later Colin started with SAC as a disease investigator and now manages the Dumfries vet lab.

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Jason, from a wine trading family has taken on the Tablas Creek vineyard which is a worlds first regenerative organic vineyard! They utilise alpacas, sheep and other systems to work alongside the vineyard!

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These two ladies married dairying brothers and decided to diversify the enterprise! There is 2 farms being run simultaneously with slightly different systems then between the brothers, Tracey and Aylett decided to start doing door to door deliveries of milk and other groceries which has snowballed hugely! Here the story here!

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Phillipa from Ometata in New Zealand talks about her role on the family 40000 hectare farm which is home to 30000 sheep, 1000 dairy cattle and quite a few workers. Those workers need fed and Phillipa makes sure they are provided with a high standard smoko! She also documents get stories in one book so far and possibly a second by the time this episode has been released

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Jane, from a farm never saw her career on farms and found her way into her profession as a paralegal after finding herself work in various jobs and for that matter locations. In her very minimal spare time Jane has worked her way through the ranks of Young Farmers in Scotland and will by next year find herself at the highest possible position in the charity as national chairperson!

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Colin, otherwise known as my old man was born on the Isle of Arran, has lived in the same house at Bridge Farm his whole life and has over the course of the last 60 years added to the farm on various occasions with his wife Laura. The farm is beef and sheep with about 630 ewes and 15 cattle. For his birthday Colin and Laura (maw and paw) have decided to visit every livestock market in mainland Scotland.

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Lorraine has tried a few things in her time, whether that is the police or buying a ‘swanky mansion’ in France! Truth is neither of them were for her and her partner. They have had small holdings in Cornwall and now in France with a particular focus on cider making and small livestock enterprises. In her ‘spare’ time Lorraine also write various books varying from how to succeed at smallholding to murder novels!

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Karl tells his story about working up to head chef at a young age before realising it wasn’t for him and within 4 years working up from nothing to almost owning 100 breeding ewes. He documents his story on Instagram and even became a recurring feature on Zoe Ball’s radio 2 show!

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Maria and Gordon both come from non-farming backgrounds and after studying different courses at different times and by chance finding themselves working together at a laying unit have now progressed their own business to the point of nearly self sustaining. They have also found themselves winning an RHS Overhead Championship!

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Andrea Flemming is not the first generation to take the reigns of her family farm in Minnesota! Running an arable and beef unit and with a previous interest in veterinary we talk about how to farm in all weathers, the methods used to do so and much more! We even delve into mental health as Andrea has been brave enough on numerous occasions to talk about her battles and her coping mechanisms that will hopefully help others! It certainly resonated with me!

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