Somerset farm online when we were on honeymoon to Brazil in 2007. It was perfect: 31 acres of rolling green pasture, a romantic old house and plenty of land to build a milking parlour and creamery.
We had zero farming experience, but we didn’t let that faze us. Will happily imagined himself as a ruddy-faced farmer: wheatsheaf on his back, striding across the fields.From the outset, however, running the farm was gruelling.
We didn’t have the handed-down knowledge that comes from growing up in the country and had to handle it all as city novices: spoiled curd, overrunning building work, the monotony of 18-hour workdays, as well as the perennial threat of a listeria outbreak that would wreck our cheese yield.
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