Interviewer Sian Green: So I suppose for a start if you wouldn't mind introducing yourselves, the farm and tell us a little bit about how long you've been doing, what you do? Has it been in your family a long time?
CHT: My parents bought Paviland Manor in 1963 and we've been farming it ever since with a variety of different crops and cropping. Initially, my father brought his dairy herd here from West Wales and he already had a farm in Gower so it was quite a logical move to come here and he knew of Paviland and when it came up for sale, (I don't think my mother's even forgiven him now) but he bought this place and sold where they were in Sinclairs. So the farm had started off initially as a traditional mixed farm and has then developed from there.
Interviewer Sian Green: And so what is it that you do today? What is it that is your bread and butter now?
CHT: Well, up to COVID. My bread and butter was actually coming from outside the farm. I was doing a consultancy for Imsarat and Airbus on precision farming worldwide and that allowed us to change the farm. So the farm is quite different now in the sense that we grow a variety of crops and a lot of it is looking to how we can change the farm to make sustainable both environmentally and economically for the future.
Fantastic.