Indie Farmer

In the tenth instalment of my twelve-part Indie Farmer series, supported by the Lund Trust and the High Weald National Landscape, I visited Tibbs Farm near Udimore, East Sussex, where brothers Simon and Phil Wheeler are building a more resilient family business by combining traditional farming with hospitality, direct sales and visitor experiences.

On a sunny summer afternoon,...

In the ninth instalment of my twelve-part Indie Farmer series, supported by the Lund Trust and the High Weald National Landscape, I visited Goodtrees Farm Butchers near Forest Row, East Sussex, to meet owner Ian Melluish and one of his butchers Josie Rollings to learn how they are building a business that reconnects livestock farming, local food and skilled butchery under one ro...

In the eighth instalment of my twelve-part Indie Farmer series, supported by the Lund Trust and the High Weald National Landscape, I visited Philip Harris at his organic vineyard near Hastings, East Sussex, to explore how a small-scale wine business is combining regenerative principles, biodiversity and thoughtful land stewardship to produce distinctive wines in the High Weald.<...