Meet the Voices....
Matthew Naylor
Matthew Naylor is a farmer and flower
grower from Moulton Marsh in Lincolnshire. He has a
reputation in the industry for growing flowers that
are taller than he is and he claims that potatoes from
the Lincolnshire silt land taste much more potatoey
than those grown elsewhere.
Matthew farms in partnership with his father, Nev, and
the family business was started by his grandfather,
Ken, 60 years ago. Most of the farm was reclaimed from
the sea by the Romans. They are a LEAF marque farm and
supply Waitrose and Marks and Spencer. The Naylors have
been farming in the same village for over 10 generations
- how unambitious is that?
Matthew gets annoyed when people tell him that he sounds
like Alan Titchmarsh (which actually he does a bit).
He writes a regular column for the Farmers Weekly. He
was the Young Farmer of the Year way back in the days
when he was still young.
HE LOVES
cooking, travelling, tank tops, Radio 4, gardening,
skiing, Georgian architecture and the sound of his own
voice. Matthew has a bed in the shape of a Land Rover
in a spare room (and sleeps in it occassionally)
HE HATES
Bluetooth earpieces, line dancing, leylandii and men
with ponytails.
Tim Teague
Tim Teague farms in the beautiful South
Shropshire hills in a tiny hamlet called Baucott. The
farm produces Hereford beef, weaned Hereford calves,
Wheat, Oilseed Rape and Barley. The farm has around
5 kilometers of riverbank which are being coppiced along
with other conservation measures.
There has been a farm at Baucott since the 1540`s.Tims
Father Bill , a first generation farmer, took the tenancy
of Manor House Farm in 1968, which makes the Teagues
positively nomadic.
Tim is married to Sue and they have a son Charlie, a
terrier called Tag, and two horses.Tim spent a year
working on a dairy farm in the USA as part of his college
course in the mid 80`s.
HE LOVES:
Food, cooking it and eating it, wine, drinking it, reading
and music are Tims main pastimes. Favourite vegetable,
savoy cabbage.
HE HATES: Ready
meals, opening the post and being slightly more than
an ideal weight are major dislikes.
Tim writes a regular Blog "Pure Hereford" with all the latest from the Shropshire Hills, and you can read it here: www.timteague.blogspot.com
Ian Pigott
Ian Pigott grows wheat, barley and oilseed rape in the heart of the commuter belt. A proportion of the land is now farmed organically, but Ian has some way to go to earn full organic status….apparently his trademark pink shirts will need to be replaced by beard, leather jerkin and sandals to conform.
Having previously worked in London as a commodity trader, Ian now farms in partnership with his parents, John and Jessie. Family legend has it that they have farmed in and around the Herts/ Beds border since 1300’s…..Pigotts are even less nomadic than Naylors!
As well as growing grains for the biscuit and malt whisky market, as the surname suggests they used to be pig farmers. Sadly, the pigs have been evicted and their sties are now rented offices and stables.
Unlike Matt, Ian no longer writes in the farmers weekly…. He founded Farm Sunday which is a National farm open day organised by LEAF (www.farmsunday.org) Last year over 150,000 visitors pulled on wellies to visit 500 farms around the country. Surprisingly, he was awarded the Farmers Weekly, Farming Champion of the year award in 2006
HE LOVES:
his unruly foxterrier Scruffy, (which he recently
ran over), his tall Canadian wife, Gilly and their two
piglets. He is very fond of sport, wine and pink shirts.
HE HATES:
pushy parents, disobedient dogs (see above),
and moaning farmers.
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