It is a varied and colourful life and landscape close by the sea at East Leys Farm
“I’m on the fence about min-till or no-till because we need to buy a new drill and you can’t really go min-till if you’ve potatoes in the rotation, or at least not true min-till, and I don’t believe going halfway house is the best way forward.
Sharon Shepherdson at East Leys Farm, Grindale, near Bridlington. Photographed by Yorkshire Post photographer Jonathan Gawthorpe. 12th May 2023. Sharon and James also have 10 acres of grass and around 27 acres of field corners, nectar mixes and other environmental options. Ironically, it is those non-cropped areas that have accentuated the cropped fields and that Sharon says lead to questioning from the public, and that in turn allows Sharon to educate a little more.
“People are amazed at the difference between the cropped fields and the headlands where we’ve had conservation headland. We’ve had people ask why that bit isn’t growing anything. We’ve then told them that it’s because we didn’t put fertiliser on that bit. “So, as a teaching tool it’s fantastic. We lovingly refer to the areas we don’t cultivate in a somewhat coarse way, but they do bring about the conversations about how we farm. The questions usually asked are, how much is the combine? What about subsidies? This all means we can educate people a little bit.
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