Kim Everett explains how she and her husband Simon were helped by the Woodland Trust to plant trees on their smallholding in Kent
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Simon and I purchased Hollin Root Farm with my parents in 2002. It is a 20-acre grass farm in the Weald of Kent. There is some hedging on one side of the farm and a few trees. One the other side of the farm, sheep netting breaks up the paddocks.
The first livestock to arrive were sheep, Manx Loaghtan, a rare breed of primitive horned sheep. Then came the pigs. The idea was to buy a couple of rare breed weaners for meat and change the breed each year. We started with Large Black, then Oxford Sandy and Black, then Middle White, and that’s as far as we got. We were hooked on the Middle Whites. They have a fantastic nature, a squashed face full of character and the meat is mouthwatering. After a few years, we bought 25 turkeys to rear for Christmas and this has now grown to over 300. The Dexter cows complete the livestock on the farm.
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