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Jilly’s mum Florence Rowden at Langwells Farm. on the other.


Surrounded by similarly verdant farmland, Jilly was temporarily baffled about where her boundaries lay when she bought the farm four years ago.


‘When I moved here I was not too sure which were my fields,’ she laughed. ‘My cousin Gary Harding farms next door and you can see Phil Bond’s fields too.’ Jilly lives at the farm bungalow with her twinkly-eyed 77-


year-old mum, Florence, who pulls her weight around the farm when she can, despite a limited mobility. Tougher than she looks, Florence was also brought up on


a farm, and takes animal husbandry in her stride. Just a few days earlier she had somehow managed to deliver a lamb, leaning her walking stick against a wall and getting stuck in.


‘The ewe was in some difficulty but Jilly was at the shop and I didn’t want to bother her with it,’ she said. One of Jilly’s favourite times of year is Showtime.


Dartmouth’s annual Fatstock Show is one of her favourites – ‘it’s got a lovely atmosphere’ – and where she swept the boards 16 years ago, scooping all of the cups including Best in Show for sheep and cattle. Jilly rarely enjoys a day off and, like most farmers, gets exasperated with the increasing amount of bureaucracy and paperwork foisted on them but when I asked her what she hoped to be doing in 10 years’ time, she simply said: ‘Here I hope.’u


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