Julia Smales
Young Farmer
‘Farming is bred into me. I work on an arable farm focussed on arable and cereal production. Coming from a farming family I just love nourishing a plant and watching it grow from drilling to harvesting and watching the results.
‘The New Forest and surrounding area is a really special and unique landscape to work in. It doesn’t get any better really.
‘I think it is really important that farms move towards more sustainable practices which are more beneficial for insects and nesting birds.
‘Litter annoys me more than anything – you see people throwing litter from windows, feeding ponies and dumping grass and carrots for them on the Forest – it makes me so angry. I wish people were more aware of the effects of doing that and the harm it can cause to the environment and wildlife.’
