Turning farming upside down - mob grazing on a Cumbrian hill farm

Letting cattle munch on one patch at a time is one of the methods the Beaumont family are using in the hope of building a farm that is financially viable and beneficial to biodiversityPhotography by Anthony CullenSam and Claire Beaumont are in the process of turning their Lake District hill farm on its head.Theirs is a landscape dominated by sheep. But in October they sold their flock of Swaledale sheep, keeping only a handful and replacing the rest with a small herd of hardy Shorthorn cattle. Continue reading...