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19. Armswell Farm
Farmers Ed & Julia Hiscock are ready to welcome visitors who’d like to find out what life is like on a modern organic dairy farm, for as well as caring for his herd of 320 Friesian cross Holstein dairy cows and their ‘followers’, they also let out some of the buildings as holiday accommodation. There’s a choice of the original farmhouse or some recently converted stables.
Originally built as a hunting lodge, Armswell Farm, near Plush, not far from Dorchester, sits in some of Dorset’s finest countryside and includes one of the county’s most beautiful walks, The Dorset Gap, in its land. It gets its name from one of several wells that are another feature of its landscape.
Ed has lived there all his life, taking over the running of it when his father, Allen, retired. It also looks as if it will remain a family concern for many years to come -- his eldest son, Josh, is currently studying at Hartpury Agricultural College and works on the farm as part of his course, helping his father and dairyman Pat Short.
As well as running Armswell, Ed works two adjoining farms and has been farming them organically since September 2002. He’s not alone in believing it is the way to be, three of his neighbours have also turned organic, two also running dairy farms and the third being arable and raising sheep.