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Joyce Campbell: Taking inspiration from some farming heroes By Joyce Campbell
Joyce with her husband Ian Macleay, left, and James Rebanks on the right.
They say never meet your heroes but I met two of mine this week and I wasn’t disappointed.
It was quite the reverse – both they, and their families, were all amazing, sharing their time, ideas and passions.
We’re on a short holiday to the Lake District, and on a mission to deliver this year’s clip of our North Country Cheviot hogg wool to a truly inspirational lady – Maria Benjamin from Dodgson Wood.
Maria along with Gloria Mazzer, an Italian based in London, reached out to me on social media to discuss the possibility of doing more with our wool.
It s been a hard, but exciting road South Cumbrian farmer John Atkinson and his partner Maria Benjamin have trod since we featured them in Farmer three years ago. JOHN Atkinson, born and bred in the Lake District, and Maria Benjamin, who came for work and stayed, are knowledgeable and interesting, passionate and sometimes controversial. John Atkinson’s family has moved just three miles in 600 years, farming in the Crake valley south of Coniston in the Lake District National Park. John, 60, is the sixth generation at Nibthwaite Grange Farm. The family had always been tenants until his parents bought the farm, prompting John to take over from his dad Bill when he was 21. “He had to sell all his livestock to pay for it and still says that was the worst day of his life,” says John, who is joined on the farm most days by his ‘retired’ dad, who is in his 80s.