The small trailer I’ve borrowed from Pete is perfect for this job. I’ll return the favour tomorrow, helping to move his sheep preparatory to shearing. It’s finally feeling warm enough for that – in recent days my cattle have, at last, sought shady margins rather than lying out in the open.
My cargo is two eight-week-old gilts and my destination is Jamie’s Farm, a charity based just outside Bath. It’s a journey I make routinely, but usually in unfamiliarly clean clothes, as a member of the housekeeping team preparing the accommodation for school visits during the week and funds-generating guests at the weekend. Like most people who cross paths with this place, it’s impossible not to take it to your heart. The initiative of Jamie Feilden and his mother, Tish, its commitment is to regenerative opportunities for the young people it works with and in its working farm practices.
