Wednesday with David Hill

We started the day with a visit to James Nelstrop, who started and runs the whisky making business 'English Whisky'. James was also a Nuffield and I had met him in Adelaide last year. It was amazing to see how he had started a business from scratch and built it up to what it is today. The taste test at the end was terrible, but very much enjoyed the look around.

We were then able to look around David's farm. His main crop is grass seed, and he has a large seed cleaning plant set up in his sheds. The crops all look like they could do with a drink, but they are also just coming out of a very cold spell so look a little sick from that too. The photo below is a picture of Davids sheds. They were SO old and the buildings were amazing!! The old house on the farm was really something to look at!!

After lunch, we visited a large farmer in Colton, Ian Arlston. Ian was a Nuffield, and he has done amazing things with his farming business. After nearly going broke many years ago in the spud industry, Ian now runs; a large business office rental site, a grain storage and drying (20,000 tonne), a self storage for townies (sea containers), water resovoir storage and on-sale to farmers down stream, as well as the farm business growing and packing spuds, growing canola, wheat and barley. Really innovative guy. He also wants to start a site on his farm called the Norfolk food hub.... but that will take a lot of explanation..... The photo below is Ian and David in Ians 15,000 tonne storage shed, which stores his own wheat and that of many of his neighbours.

We finished they day at a tiny English pub, with the low ceilings and terrible unbubbly hot english beer. We met some friends of David and Christines there. Mary Kemp, is a chef, and did a nuffield scholarship on pork in Australia. It was interesting to talk to her about GM food and her perception of it as a chef. Photo below is David, Christine and I at the little pub!

Eating WAY to much yummy English food, and it is way to cold to get out in the shorts for exercise..... so anyway bring on hockey training when I get home.......