Agricultural Graduate with some sheep experience and keen to get experience there and elsewhere.
BSc
Mainly Livestock, Mixed Farming
BSc Hons Agriculture at Royal Agricultural University
Placement at local fruit distillery
Dissertation: Avenues of Waste Management from Fruit Distillery
No Licence
Not listed
Dairy, Lambing
No experience of equipment.
Very brief dairy experience on a 300 head Holstein-Friesian farm in Powys, Mid Wales. 20 cow parallel parlour milking twice a day.
Lambing in Surrey on a 1000 acre mixed farm with 50 head whitefaced woodland sheep.
Male
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22
No
United Kingdom
London
English
Yes
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Fishing. Foraging. Walking. Running.
6'2" 70kg
No
Most extensive farm work experience was in a Vineyard in France, Beaujolais. Helping in the vines untangling vines, 2 months prior to harvest, just after grapes had set bunches. 8 hectares in Fleurie Cru of Beaujolais. Organic certified and biodynamic practices.
Other experiences include
Cheesemongers, London 01/24-present
- Cheesemonger and taster of continental and territorial cheeses
Estate, Angus August 2023
- Beating on a Grouse moor for the brief grouse season in Glen Lethnot and some estate duties too
Distillery, Cirencester 05/21-07/22
- Fruit distillery in the Cotswolds hand processing local fruit and distilling into brandy
Agricultural University, Cirencester 10/21-06/23
- Student Ambassador and Vice President Academic(Director and Governor)
Estate, Isle of Lewis 06/21-08/21
- Fishing guide, ghillie and estate work seasonally
Pig Butchers, Kent 10/17-03/20
- Butcher at local whole carcass butchery making sausages, curing bacon and stuffing puddings
Looking to help with whatever I can and very keen to learn, putting my degree in perspective and helping to make a difference.
Start: 11/11/2024 Finish: Not Specified
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Permanent
I live in London but would ideally work anywhere in the UK. I have lived in Gloucestershire, Powys, Flintshire, Angus, the Isle of Lewis, Surrey and Kent so they are all good but ideally someplace new!