![]() ![]() Signed CHANEL 2CC8 Made in France 75/80. Chains terminate with 2 big medallions bearing CHANEL logo. Wide red leather belt with iconic Chanel buckle. So they’ll be making the final product, whether that be making apple juice or jam or cider, or sausages, or doing catering or running their own farm shops or whatever it is.As seen on Claudia Schiffer from the Spring/ Summer 1992 Chanel Campaign. Quite a lot of farms do a lot of value added processing. Get a good business plan together, develop some products, try and shorten your chains of where you supply to, so you are supplying as locally as possible and getting as much of the value of your product back as possible. You kind of have to go into it with a little bit of belief behind you. And you can’t always expect the price of the land to reflect the value that you’ll get from your farming. But what you have to do is try and get finance from maybe ethical banks, crowd funding, going into community supported agriculture or work for a trust… find a creative way to raise the finance for the incredibly high prices of land. There are some examples out there of successful people who have moved into agriculture and are making a go of it. But there are people who do it, who believe that much in going into small scale farming that they do it. You have to be quite creative, and sometimes have quite thick skin to barge your way through all the barriers that get put in place. There are opportunities out there that are opening up. They just think for our food security we can import everything. The government policy in no way supports making farming viable and saying that we need to have farming in place. And I think it’s one that people think might be inevitable, but it isn’t inevitable in any way. And that’s the whole process that’s in place with all of farming. There’s nothing, financially, that promotes anybody doing it. They’re really working pure belief and love, these dairy farmers. So the only people who are really farming are doing it because it’s a family farm, and they don’t really want to give it up, or just because they believe in it. They can get payments without it being linked to any production whatsoever. They’re completely going out of business because they’re being paid below the cost of production, and there’s no market regulation in place to ensure that they get a fair price on their product, to make sure that they can provide a viable livelihood. I don’t know what the rate is, the statistics are there. Those things help, they all help with mitigating climate change.Įxactly, and that process is still in place today, I mean dairy farms are just dying. You have more of a focus on fruit and vegetables in people’s diets if they’re getting things from small scale farms, so you don’t have as much grain factory farming going on. Also if we start doing more grass based farming, then we can start using grass as a carbon sink and start bringing down our carbon emissions. It means we can still have something to depend on if we still have local farms in place. The weather seems to be changing all over the place, and nobody can really predict where it’s going. It’s not like you’re putting all your eggs in one basket. If something doesn’t work one year, you still have something to fall back on. I think it would help with the situation, I mean I think there’s a lot to be done if we’re going to turn the tide of climate change! I think for one thing for our future food security, small scale farms – because there’s a diversity of things going on – are more resilient in the face of climate change. To become a movement really, to try and change food. Also to build a sense of solidarity amongst ourselves, you know. I thought we needed to get together and say something about that, and start to do something to change the political context that we’re operating in. We’ve had so many volunteers through our farm, I get calls pretty much every day from aspiring people who want to work the land and have an occupation in connection with the environment, and realise that there are a lot of people out there who want to do this. The way it’s set up on a wider political level, it is extremely difficult for people to do that. As we set up our farm I met people from all across the country, from all over the place. You have to have a lot of tenacity, and you need enough tenacity to maintain yourself as a farmer anyway, much less in such an unhelpful political context as what’s going on in the UK. But I realise that it’s actually quite a struggle doing it in the context of UK food policy. Now we’ve got a successful small farm with my family. Well I’ve been working as a small farmer in the UK for 17 years now, going through all the stages of getting set up with almost no capital, no training in agriculture and very little support network. ![]()
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