
Farming Today This Week: Countryfile Farming Hero Finalist - Joan Bomford
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. Charlotte Smith meets a lady who started to farm during the Second World War and is still going strong.
Charlotte Smith meets Joan Bomford, one the 成人快手 Food & Farming Awards finalists in the Countryfile Farming Hero category. Joan has been interested in farming since being a little girl, and started working on the land during World War Two when many of the men were away at war. With her husband Tony, she started a riding school on their farm in Worcestershire with just one animal - doing most of the breeding herself and building it up to over a hundred horses. This was farm diversification before people were talking about it. She has overseen riding lessons for the very young, as well as for people with physical and learning disabilities.
Now, as she hits 83, Joan is still going strong and shows no sign of slowing down. However, as Charlotte Smith discovers, it has not always been an easy journey and she has had to face the loss of both her brother and husband in recent years. Charlotte meets Joan - as well as one of her sons, Colin, and some neighbours - as she looks back over a life of hard work, love of farming, and making a real difference to others.
Presenter: Charlotte Smith
Producer: Rich Ward.
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- Sat 18 Apr 2015 06:30成人快手 Radio 4
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Farming Today
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