9/26/2023 0 Comments Kevin 11 ben 10 reboot![]() Over by the driveway is the present: a gargantuan, hi-tech aircraft hangar filled with 32,000 egg-laying chickens that spend their days roaming on 42 of the farm’s 190 acres. Traditional farming still pays, but not enough. In the pasture below, Lass, the collie dog, goads some of the 300 sheep kept here. ![]() ![]() Surrounding us is the past: fields set aside for arable – mainly wheat – plus a paddock of grovelling pigs and some dairy cows. From the highest point of Kevin and Sian Rickard’s land in the village of Bishton, in the east of the city of Newport, South Wales, you can just about see the past, present and future of making a small farm viable in Britain in 2021.
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