Video Diary, Will Benson, Town Head farm. The joys and challenges of managing a hill farm

Commoner Will Benson and his son Jack farm at Town Head Farm, Grasmere, in the central Lake District. In this film they discuss their lives as hill farmers. They have spent the afternoon shearing some of their Herdwick sheep, which have been gathered in from the fells and will be returned to Grasmere Common until the autumn. The film was created as one of three films presented at the opening ceremony of the 9th International Outdoor Education Research Conference at the University of Cumbria's Ambleside campus in July 2022. For more insights into life on #OurUplandCommons go to https://foundationforcommonland.org.u... This video is part of the project 'Our Common Cause: Our Upland Commons', which is led by The Foundation for Common Land. The project has been made possible by funding from National Lottery players, grants from Esmée Fairbairn and Garfield Weston Foundations. Local funders are Dartmoor: South West Water, the Duchy of Cornwall, the Dartmoor Preservation Association and Devon Wildlife Trust, amongst others. Shropshire: the Millichope Foundation, amongst others. Yorkshire Dales: Yorkshire Dales Millennium