It would be a miracle if Cyril the Hereford bull was still around.
He roamed the fields of Newton-le-Willows back in the 1970s, but a nephew of the farmer that had Rock House Farm back then has brought back the breed that will provide eye candy for visitors to his family’s Open Farm Sunday event next Sunday . “We love Herefords,” says David Peach who, with wife Sheena, daughter Zoe and son Tom, gave up life in the Midlands, having inherited the 40-acre farm, and made the move to North Yorkshire in 2016. “Alan, my uncle, had Cyril.
“The diversity of wildlife on the farm has really developed over the last few years with curlews, barn owls, buzzards and little owls and in leaving the hay until later for cutting we have created a really nice habitat for curlews.” David says that the Herefords will be in their natural environment too, outside, as will the sheep and pigs, which are wholly outdoor reared, for those attending OFS. “This year we’re trying something different.
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