All families have stories. This is ours. It covers the last 50 years – hard times to start with, but better now. Farmers were almost a dying breed. Europe came to our rescue. The EU gave us incentives and provided a financial safety net. But we have earned every cent we’ve made down the years, often the hard way. If you’re not smart, or not prepared to make the effort or take the risk, you can still fail. On this farm everybody works – even the cat has a job to do as mouse-catcher.