SGRIOB-RUADH

Jeff and I, along with our growing family of four boys, were first generation farmers in Somerset. We worked hard milking a small herd of cows, but life at that time was a real struggle; a 'milk lake' in Europe meant milk supply was out weighing demand and so we realized the milk we were producing was not really needed. In 1979 we took our first holiday to Jeff's beloved Scotland, to Mull, where he had tried to get a job as a student. We bought a few acres of land here in our desperation as an escape route. Whilst here, we discovered that the milk supply was very erratic, mostly coming as freight and subject to all the difficulties of that.

Primary location: United Kingdom