A Week in the Life of...

Name: Roger & Penny Webber
Job: Tenant farmers
Responsible for: Hindon
Organic Hill Farm, within the
Holnicote Estate and Exmoor

Ever wondered if you could cut it in the country? Farmers are reputed to rise
with the lark – and boy, they need to. 
In this business, time is money, and there’s never enough of either. This is a diary of organic farmers Penny and Roger
Webber’s working week, from their National Trust farm on the fringes of Exmoor. Here they have their own organic farm shop and run a mail order business. Add to this a bed and breakfast and
holiday cottage business, and you have a typical farmer’s working week nowadays.
    

Penny Webber (pictured left) wrote this in spring, a rather lively time of the year on a livestock farm. But at least the Sunday starts off quietly…



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