The Boundary Farm has been a working mixed farm over centuries, changing to mainly arable in the 1970s. The site consisted of a complex of buildings including an old tudor barn, a flint and stone thatched stable and other pig breeding units. Stock was traded at local markets usually Acle and Norwich. Also there were chickens prepared on site for the meat market and fresh eggs. Teams of workers harvested root crops and there were cereals: wheat, barley and oats.

With further development of the holiday park the stock farming was phased out and ended by 1980 and only a holiday business remained with some contracted cropping of the remaining fields along Boundary Road. Since 1990 I lived with my former husband (now divorced) in Cambridgeshire and not far from the fen at Ely. We farmed combinable crops of wheat and oilseed rape and some linseed.

The freeholder, Donald Cooke, hired out land along Boundary Road to a sheep farmer in recent years, when the property was likely to continue using the land for intensively farmed cereal crops. Resuming any cattle breeding was not on my agenda nor was reviving the farmyard. It would be somehow useful for biodynamic gardening purposes to keep some cattle, possibly also for organic agricultural growing.

A herd of breeding cattle was added during the pandemic. It concerns me that I find myself distracted with the recent unexpected company business alterations when my purposes were oriented to providing something more like sanctuary conditions, with a breathing space to review and rewrite policies. During the pandemic of 2019 I launched the website "The Field and Farm Alliance" and attempted to find associates for the consortium. Positive changes have been the return to grassland and fallow land meadows when there needs to be a game plan for organic agriculture if not biodynamic.

My own diet is mixed vegetarian sometimes vegan. I am not an animal keeper and I am slightly knocked off balance by the re version to stock breeding on a farmyard scale.