About

About Me!

I’m a farmer’s daughter  born and bred in South Yorkshire.   One of my earliest memories was picking up the local pea pickers from the village in the tractor and trailer with my father and going to work with them in one of the biggest fields in the area picking mange tout.   I loved it and carried on helping out on the farm until I was 16.

I left school  and home, got a job and even ended up in London but my heart was always in agriculture.  It seemed like an age before I managed to find a way back into it. In 2005 I left London and then started the long road to where I am now.  I will admit that I’ve had a multitude of jobs and a lot of them poorly paid – but I took them for a purpose as it got me the experience and background that I needed to qualify as an agronomist.  I’m grateful and I’ve met some fantastic (and some not so fantastic) people along the way.

I started crop walking in 2010 with excellent guidance and tuition from some of the best in the business and achieved my first BASIS qualification in Agronomy in 2011.  Later I finished my higher education, having started with a Foundation Degree in Agriculture and Environmental Science at Riseholme College, Lincoln (now Bishop Burton); followed by a Harper Adams BSc (Hons)  Degree in Agriculture and Land Management from Askham Bryan College, York. I am now a Full Member of the BASIS Professional Register in Agriculture and Crop Protection.

I’m very passionate about my profession and proud to be part of the British farming community.   Whilst I have a full time job within the agricultural sector,  I also very occasionally write articles as an agricultural journalist and am a member of the British Guild of Agricultural Journalists.