Julie Baber
Julie Baber has a small farm in her native Somerset where she raises traditional and rare breed sheep for wool, meat and pedigree breeding stock.
Julie Baber has a small farm in her native Somerset where she raises traditional and rare breed sheep for wool, meat and pedigree breeding stock.
For the second year in a row, COVID-19 had forced the conference to go online. This was something of a double-edged sword for Julie Baber.
‘Rewilding’ is an emotive word and appeals to both a primitive need and a primitive fear within us. It implies a seriousness and urgency that ‘wildlife gardening’ or ‘nature friendly farming...
After ORFC discussions on indigenous knowledges, Julie Baber reflects upon how the term might apply to a UK context - what can we learn from our own longstanding farming traditions?
In more holistic food systems, there is no such thing as waste - everything has value. But how can we bring the elements widely considered as by-products back to the forefront of our production system...
When I was a child, my Dad and I had regular arguments about whose turn it was to have the ‘top of the milk’ – that thick yellow head of cream on the daily pint that we both coveted for our brea...
How has COVID-19 affected the value of wool? Sheep farmer Julie Baber highlights the problems in devaluing the natural material and why a shift in mindset is needed
From flooded fields to being flooded with nature-seeking urbanites, Somerset farmer Julie Baber, gives us her view of these last dramatic months from the old mining community of Pensford
Small farmer Julie Baber writes following the Oxford Real Farming Conference about the inspiration to be found when a diverse group of people working in different ways towards a sustainable future com...
How do you define what a farmer is and why is the question important? As a small farmer, Julie Baber explores the attitude towards scale in agriculture and how this has changed over time
Wool has traditionally been of great significance to the wealth of the UK, which has more sheep breeds than any other country in the world. Yet today it has become a throwaway by-product of the meat i...
Julie Baber, a small farmer in Somerset, tells of her experience using a local traditional abattoir and the essential role it plays for her business and local community