Alice Dyer @doitinwellies
Alice describes herself as a farmer, foody, fieldsports follower and journalist, fuelled by fresh air. Working for the Farmers Guardian, agriculture’s leading, weekly magazine, Alice is not from a farming background but spent a lot of time with a family friend's dairy herd growing up. She was inspired to study a National Diploma in Agriculture at Hadlow, Kent (where she is also from) before studying a BSc in Agriculture at the Royal Agricultural University. On graduating, she secured an apprenticeship with a regional farming magazine - South East Farmer - and studied journalism one day a week in London where she then started keeping my own sheep. Deciding to work on farms abroad for a couple of years she travelled to New Zealand, Australian and Italy and when she returned started at Farmers Guardian in November 2018. Soon after she and boyfriend, Adam set up their own farming business growing babyleaf salad (spinach, rocket etc) in Warwickshire, renting land and growing about 300 acres supplying big supermarkets via a processor (they harvest about 40 tonnes of salad leaves a week) She loves documenting her farming journey and getting people out on farm, especially around pumpkin time where she runs a pick your own pumpkin patch each year, growing 25,000 pumpkins.