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Deep in the middle of the East Sussex countryside, Little Tottingworth Farm sits in a hollow overlooking the beautiful High Weald. With the farm originally purchased in 1957 by Dennis and Ruby Browning, some fifty years later is it still in the same family today run by their grandchildren Sarah and Michael together with Sarah’s husband Jason.

The Spours family farms 4,370 acres in widely-spread large blocks of tenanted land in north Northumberland which comprise of heather moorland and improved lowland. The emphasis is on self-sufficiency and keeping inputs to a minimum for the enterprises based at Twizell Farm, near Belford, just north of Alnwick.

Twenty years ago, 70% of Molland Moor on the southern edge of Exmoor in Devon was covered in heather. This figure has dropped to 30% in recent years as gorse, bracken and molinia grass has flourished and spread.