Welcome to Roots Farm.

Its probably right for us to start at the beginning, where our tumultuous and often laughable journey began.  

5 years ago we made a big decision to change our life, home, careers, basically everything apart from our gender identity...

Eventually hoping we'd create and live a rich lifestyle in the countryside as a family.  

What does that actually mean you ask?

Yep, it means we decided that we would BUILD a farm from scratch with little to no experience of actual farming.

Your first thoughts as well as our family and friends first thoughts were probably the same, are you f**king mad?

Why's that we'd ask?  

Well apart from the obvious of not having any idea of what we were actually doing or going to do, it couldn't be a worse time for farming and yet did we listen to any of their repeated concerns?

Did we bollocks.

Not only do we have the ever changing weather and impacts on the landscape to contend with, we still have the after math of that  5 letter word which resulted in huge hikes in costs from EU supplies and not to mention a total kn*bhead now in charge of the country, making farming for 1st, 2nd, or 50th generation farmers ultimately impossible.

Maybe having reread the above our sanity could be questioned right now. But, even with all those challenges we still decided that building a farm was our dream and what we wanted to do for us, our young children and our childrens' children eventually.

So where are we at as a farm? Well, we've not grown, reared or built one thing yet...ffs.

It's been more difficult to even just buy the land, than the 2 childbirths I've experienced in the 5 years since we counjoured up this dream/nightmare in all honesty...

At one stage we even contemplated living the norm, returning back to our well paid 9-5 office jobs and being content with a chippy tea on a Friday night. It wasn't that bad was it?

But no. We kept pushing through the daily sh*tstorm of farming life hoping one day, it would all be sunshine and rainbows, literally.  

It's not all been bad though, we are further than we were 5 years ago...

We may now have no money, after ploughing it into a ridiculously high interest only mortgage thanks to inflation and nowhere to currrently live yet to make it actually viable to start, but we do have 25 acres of land and a whole host of great ideas to make Roots Farm a success for our family, community and surrounding wildlife.

One thing I have realised in the past 5 years is that in life you can't be sure of anything but what I can be sure of, is whatever happens, stocks in Jack Daniels will go up exponentially whether we succeed or fail.

Further updates coming soon.

Roots.

Small Farm. Big Dream.