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Glencroft launches unique Yorkshire Dales wool project

Clothing brand Glencroft is to launch a traceable ‘Farm to Yarn’ Dales wool collection in 2022, following a grant from the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

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 hi...

NOW RETIRED, David Evans managed St Fort Farm in Fife for 27 years before moving down to Lincolnshire to manage a 4000 acre estate belonging to the Limestone Farming Company for a further 15 years. He spent his retirement in North Wales where he owned 15 acres and kept 20 cows until he was no longer able to look after them, and sold the remainder of his beloved Lincoln Red Herd to the Balcaskie Estate in Fife. He now lives with his daughter near Cirencester, and although increasingly physically frail, his mind and farming brain remain as sharp as ever and he spends his time reading and writ...