We are a farming family who rent a National Trust farm on the Gunby Hall estate. Bernard Jarnell came here in 1956 when the farm was much smaller and kept a few cattle and a small number of chickens. He still comes daily to check on what is happening on the farm.

Graham and son Andrew work full time on the farm. Wife Liz runs the farm shop helped by daughter Emma, when she's home from running the local Playgroup.

Today we farm 500 acres in total and growing wheat and oilseed rape. The 100 acres of grass which a greater proportion is rigg and furrow is grazed by our flock of 160 ewes and lambs. We are concerned about the way farming has an important role in preserving the countryside and have joined the Countryside Stewardship Scheme to help maintain important features.

We have purchased a weed wiper, which is proving to be popular, to apply weed killer onto nettles and thistles in grassland. This clever little machine pulled by a quad bike only applies chemical to the taller weeds and therefore does not apply it to the grass.

Like many farms of our size we have had to diversify from earning our living totally from producing food and selling to the trade. We also operate as farm contractors offering a full range of arable and estate maintenance skills and also have started selling our produce direct to consumers in our farm shop.

We are involved in estate maintainance at Gunby one interesting job we have is maintaining the grounds at Monksthorpe Baptist Church