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Bizza Walters with Greyface Dartmoor ewes at her Warwickshire farm. ‘Farming is a business,’ she says. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

When Bizza Walters is out working on her Warwickshire farm, she often sees people strolling around the patchwork fields, looking at her fluffy sheep.

The 25-year-old is a fourth generation farmer on 500 acres of English countryside, and she likes that visitors to the area enjoy using their farm for a walk.