Introduce Yourself

DebSchofield

New Member
Hello everyone!! I'm Debbie!! Farmers daughter from Yorkshire (and still hands on, think with a family farm there's no escape ☺️) My 'real' job is agricultural insurance broker working for Jelf Insurance Partnership based from York but I cover the whole of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Humberside!!! Busy little bee visiting you guys and helping where I can with queries, changes, claims and trying to save you a few pennies at the same time!!!
 

holwellcourtfarm

Member
Livestock Farmer
Hello everyone!! I'm Debbie!! Farmers daughter from Yorkshire (and still hands on, think with a family farm there's no escape ☺️) My 'real' job is agricultural insurance broker working for Jelf Insurance Partnership based from York but I cover the whole of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Humberside!!! Busy little bee visiting you guys and helping where I can with queries, changes, claims and trying to save you a few pennies at the same time!!!
Welcome to the mad house Debbie! There a few other insurance folk on here so don't expect it all your own way.

And watch out for them Lancashire lot, as if I need to warn a Yorkshire lass that :whistle:

If you're feeling brave dip into the "Off Topic" forum, you might need a recovery team if you dive in too far :D
 

DebSchofield

New Member
Welcome to the mad house Debbie! There a few other insurance folk on here so don't expect it all your own way.

And watch out for them Lancashire lot, as if I need to warn a Yorkshire lass that :whistle:

If you're feeling brave dip into the "Off Topic" forum, you might need a recovery team if you dive in too far :D

Thanks very much!!! I'll have a good nosey around and see what I can find!!
 

Landyman

New Member
Hello everyone!! I'm Debbie!! Farmers daughter from Yorkshire (and still hands on, think with a family farm there's no escape ☺️) My 'real' job is agricultural insurance broker working for Jelf Insurance Partnership based from York but I cover the whole of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Humberside!!! Busy little bee visiting you guys and helping where I can with queries, changes, claims and trying to save you a few pennies at the same time!!!
Wellll helllooooooo :)
 

Wild Carrot

Member
Hi there everyone!

My story;

I originally grew up on a farm in Wiltshire which my father owned.

I loved growing up on the farm however one day my father died suddenly in a tragic accident on the farm just a couple of weeks before I turned aged 6. Upon my father's death, my mother suddenly had the farm foisted on her and she fell into a pit of depression. But although the farm survived (it was almost declared bankrupt not long after my fathers death) and my mother eventually got over her depression, my childhood was very tough (I often didn't have enough food to eat, my mother suffered a lot from mental health problems and the farm was very isolated etc).

Growing up on the farm, I was very involved in on life on the farm. For example I helped planted thousands of tree's, I raised hundreds of chickens over the years (for pets, eggs and eating) and I was always doing jobs around the farm (although officially, the first proper job that I did was roguing when I was around age 11-12). But on the other hand, aside from my brother, there weren't any children my age growing up nearby (the neighbouring farmers were all quite elderly or distanced from us etc), the closest neighbours we had were hardly what you would call close at all, there was next to no steady employment or career prospects any of the local villages and home life was very difficult etc.

And so although there were many aspects about the farm that I loved, at age 16 after meeting my partner I moved out of the farm to start living and working elsewhere (and I never looked back).

Except that, I always hoped that I would one day be able to return to the land.

I didn't miss the full extent of the isolation on the farm that I grew up on (I don't ever want to live in such an isolated place). But I did miss many other aspects of it (I love fields, tree's, wildlife, cattle, chickens, the smells and the open space etc).

And as silly as it might sound, having my own field has always been a dream of mine lol (a life goal).
I want to be back involved in farming somehow, I want to make a living from the land, I want to do something good (to produce food and be good towards nature) and I want to return back to my roots!

But try as I might, for the longest time, buying my own piece of land didn't seem like a financially viable option (and land prices just kept on going up etc). That no matter what happened, having my own little piece of land just seemed like a pipe dream.

But more recently I think I might have finally managed to accumulate enough money to finally buy some land!

But I have SOO much to learn.
And I don't feel like I can ever go back to the farm that I grew up on (for advice or anything).
I feel very on my own at the moment (all I have in this venture at the moment is ambition).
And I don't want to be a mere landowner- I want to be involved in my land!

Soo...I hope to try and learn as much as possible here. I will try to be helpful whenever/wherever I can, but I might also badger you all with a lot of questions!

Thank you all for your time (and I look forward to getting to know you all better). Apologies about the long post!
 
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Landyman

New Member
Hi there everyone!

My story;

I originally grew up on a farm in Wiltshire which my father owned.

I loved growing up on the farm however one day my father died suddenly in a tragic accident on the farm just a couple of weeks before I turned aged 6. Upon my father's death, my mother had the farm foisted on her and she fell into a pit of depression. But although the farm survived (it was almost declared bankrupt not long after my fathers death) and my mother eventually got over her depression, my childhood was very tough (I often didn't have enough food to eat, my mother suffered a lot from mental health problems and the farm was very isolated etc).

Growing up on the farm, I was very involved in on life on the farm. For example I helped planted thousands of tree's, I raised hundreds of chickens over the years (for pets, eggs and eating) and I was always doing jobs around the farm (although officially, the first proper job that I did was roguing when I was around age 11-12). But on the other hand, aside from my brother, there weren't any children my age growing up nearby (the neighbouring farmers were all quite elderly or distanced from us etc), the closest neighbours we had were hardly what you would call close at all, there was next to no steady employment or career prospects any of the local villages and home life was very difficult etc.

And so although there were many aspects about the farm that I loved, at age 16 after meeting my partner I moved out of the farm to start living and working elsewhere (and I never looked back).

Except that, I always hoped that I would one day be able to return to the land.

I didn't miss the full extent of the isolation on the farm that I grew up on (I don't ever want to live in such an isolated place). But I did miss many other aspects of it (I love fields, tree's, wildlife, cattle, chickens, the smells and the open space etc).

And as silly as it might sound, having my own field has always been a dream of mine lol (a life goal).
I want to be back involved in farming somehow, I want to make a living from the land, I want to do something good (to produce food and be good towards nature) and I want to return back to my roots!

But try as I might, for the longest time, buying my own piece of land didn't seem like a financially viable option (and land prices just kept on going up etc). That no matter what happened, having my own little piece of land just seemed like a pipe dream.

But more recently I think I might have finally managed to accumulate enough money to finally buy some land!

But I have SOO much to learn.
And I don't feel like I can ever go back to the farm that I grew up on (for advice or anything).
I feel very on my own at the moment (all I have in this venture at the moment is ambition).
And I don't want to be a mere landowner- I want to be involved in my land!

Soo...I hope to try and learn as much as possible here. I will try to be helpful whenever/wherever I can, but I might also badger you all with a lot of questions!

Thank you all for your time (and I look forward to getting to know you all better). Apologies about the long post!
Badger away :)
 

holwellcourtfarm

Member
Livestock Farmer
Hi there everyone!

My story;

I originally grew up on a farm in Wiltshire which my father owned.

I loved growing up on the farm however one day my father died suddenly in a tragic accident on the farm just a couple of weeks before I turned aged 6. Upon my father's death, my mother suddenly had the farm foisted on her and she fell into a pit of depression. But although the farm survived (it was almost declared bankrupt not long after my fathers death) and my mother eventually got over her depression, my childhood was very tough (I often didn't have enough food to eat, my mother suffered a lot from mental health problems and the farm was very isolated etc).

Growing up on the farm, I was very involved in on life on the farm. For example I helped planted thousands of tree's, I raised hundreds of chickens over the years (for pets, eggs and eating) and I was always doing jobs around the farm (although officially, the first proper job that I did was roguing when I was around age 11-12). But on the other hand, aside from my brother, there weren't any children my age growing up nearby (the neighbouring farmers were all quite elderly or distanced from us etc), the closest neighbours we had were hardly what you would call close at all, there was next to no steady employment or career prospects any of the local villages and home life was very difficult etc.

And so although there were many aspects about the farm that I loved, at age 16 after meeting my partner I moved out of the farm to start living and working elsewhere (and I never looked back).

Except that, I always hoped that I would one day be able to return to the land.

I didn't miss the full extent of the isolation on the farm that I grew up on (I don't ever want to live in such an isolated place). But I did miss many other aspects of it (I love fields, tree's, wildlife, cattle, chickens, the smells and the open space etc).

And as silly as it might sound, having my own field has always been a dream of mine lol (a life goal).
I want to be back involved in farming somehow, I want to make a living from the land, I want to do something good (to produce food and be good towards nature) and I want to return back to my roots!

But try as I might, for the longest time, buying my own piece of land didn't seem like a financially viable option (and land prices just kept on going up etc). That no matter what happened, having my own little piece of land just seemed like a pipe dream.

But more recently I think I might have finally managed to accumulate enough money to finally buy some land!

But I have SOO much to learn.
And I don't feel like I can ever go back to the farm that I grew up on (for advice or anything).
I feel very on my own at the moment (all I have in this venture at the moment is ambition).
And I don't want to be a mere landowner- I want to be involved in my land!

Soo...I hope to try and learn as much as possible here. I will try to be helpful whenever/wherever I can, but I might also badger you all with a lot of questions!

Thank you all for your time (and I look forward to getting to know you all better). Apologies about the long post!
A great intro post (y)

Welcome aboard.
 

phillipe

Member
Hi there everyone!

My story;

I originally grew up on a farm in Wiltshire which my father owned.

I loved growing up on the farm however one day my father died suddenly in a tragic accident on the farm just a couple of weeks before I turned aged 6. Upon my father's death, my mother suddenly had the farm foisted on her and she fell into a pit of depression. But although the farm survived (it was almost declared bankrupt not long after my fathers death) and my mother eventually got over her depression, my childhood was very tough (I often didn't have enough food to eat, my mother suffered a lot from mental health problems and the farm was very isolated etc).

Growing up on the farm, I was very involved in on life on the farm. For example I helped planted thousands of tree's, I raised hundreds of chickens over the years (for pets, eggs and eating) and I was always doing jobs around the farm (although officially, the first proper job that I did was roguing when I was around age 11-12). But on the other hand, aside from my brother, there weren't any children my age growing up nearby (the neighbouring farmers were all quite elderly or distanced from us etc), the closest neighbours we had were hardly what you would call close at all, there was next to no steady employment or career prospects any of the local villages and home life was very difficult etc.

And so although there were many aspects about the farm that I loved, at age 16 after meeting my partner I moved out of the farm to start living and working elsewhere (and I never looked back).

Except that, I always hoped that I would one day be able to return to the land.

I didn't miss the full extent of the isolation on the farm that I grew up on (I don't ever want to live in such an isolated place). But I did miss many other aspects of it (I love fields, tree's, wildlife, cattle, chickens, the smells and the open space etc).

And as silly as it might sound, having my own field has always been a dream of mine lol (a life goal).
I want to be back involved in farming somehow, I want to make a living from the land, I want to do something good (to produce food and be good towards nature) and I want to return back to my roots!

But try as I might, for the longest time, buying my own piece of land didn't seem like a financially viable option (and land prices just kept on going up etc). That no matter what happened, having my own little piece of land just seemed like a pipe dream.

But more recently I think I might have finally managed to accumulate enough money to finally buy some land!

But I have SOO much to learn.
And I don't feel like I can ever go back to the farm that I grew up on (for advice or anything).
I feel very on my own at the moment (all I have in this venture at the moment is ambition).
And I don't want to be a mere landowner- I want to be involved in my land!

Soo...I hope to try and learn as much as possible here. I will try to be helpful whenever/wherever I can, but I might also badger you all with a lot of questions!

Thank you all for your time (and I look forward to getting to know you all better). Apologies about the long post!
ask whatever you want doesnt matter how daft or trivial,you will get a good round opinion,and some proper rubbish
 

Wild Carrot

Member
ask whatever you want doesnt matter how daft or trivial,you will get a good round opinion,and some proper rubbish

That's good to hear (about being able to ask anything and good round opinions!) as I feel a bit daunted by the prospect of being able to actually achieve my dream of returning to the land (and I was worried that I might get rejected based on how basic some of my questions are going to inevitably be). I'm a very willing learner but I realize that I have a lot to learn (and I hope I don't annoy you too much with all my questions!).
 

phillipe

Member
That's good to hear (about being able to ask anything and good round opinions!) as I feel a bit daunted by the prospect of being able to actually achieve my dream of returning to the land (and I was worried that I might get rejected based on how basic some of my questions are going to inevitably be). I'm a very willing learner but I realize that I have a lot to learn (and I hope I don't annoy you too much with all my questions!).
dont worry plenty of basic people on here ,one will be along any minute now,youll see
 

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