My question is can this lifestyle be sustained. The farm covers 2000 acres and is clearly not intensive. Assuming the eldest boy gets married and follows in the footsteps of the parents what happens to the other eight kids ? Do they all marry and have nine kids and each of those eight couples farm 2000 acres. I know that is very unlikely but if they did, the extended family would be farming most of upland Britain within the next 100 years. Thus that rate of reproduction is not sustainable without stepping up from an extensive farming situation to smaller units very intensively farmed in such a way to support a very large family.The Owens are an interesting comparison. Their large family had clearly increased their overall impact on the planet but I wonder if their chosen lifestyle means its not that much more than a typical English urban couple with 2 kids.
I thought this might exercise the minds of the greens but it has gone silent.
Another set of cranks, the rewilders would do wonders for Clive and Amanda`s farm, as would the vegans.