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Burwash Manor Farm

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For the Love of the Land: A cook book to celebrate British farmers and their food

By Jenny Jefferies

Published 2020

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By Mike Radford

“I immediately set about two things: rewilding the farm (coppicing, gapping up and planting hedges and trees, sowing flower-rich grass margins) and to bring the farm into profit by ridding it of grass weeds, using the best varieties and the best chemistry.”

The 400 acres of Burwash Manor were bought by my great grandfather over 100 years ago. I joined my father in 1976, my son joined in 2012 and now the sixth generation plays in the corn and feeds the occasional orphaned calf.
After university and International Voluntary Service in Lesotho, I came back to a farm which had been hit by three severe financial blows and was in dire straits. The farm had suffered from Dutch Elm disease and post-war agricultural policies, hence was substantially treeless and hedge-less. With this in mind, I immediately set about two things: rewilding the farm (coppicing, gapping up and planting hedges and trees, sowing flower-rich grass margins) and bringing the farm into profit by ridding it of grass weeds, using the best varieties and the best chemistry.

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