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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.