50 YEARS OF FAMILY FARMING

South Brockwells Farm is very much a family farm, run by passionate food producers.

Chrissy Wells and Sarah Robinson moved to the farm with their parents in 1976 and, on the retirement of their father David Douglas in 2019, the sisters formed the South Brockwells Farm Partnership with Chrissy’s husband, Arron.

Today, two generations work on the farm, with Chrissy, Arron and their two daughters Lucy and Daisy.

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Commercial Sheep

South Brockwells has been home to a flock of commercial sheep since 1976, in those days in the thousands now in the hundreds. Chrissy and Arron have worked hard to produce a breed of sheep that thrive on the farm. We have about 150 head of commercial breeding ewes around 30 younger ewes as replacements and our lovely Rams. Lucy and Daisy own some Herdwicks and their Ram called Harry and breed their own pets from around fifteen happy hand-reared sheep.

 

Our breeding ewes are Mules and Roussin / Mule first cross and we have a stunning Texel ram and a Beltex / Charollais cross ram. Our Roussin ram called Russell provides us with his daughters whom we keep as replacement breeding ewes. We rear around 300 lambs per year, some stay in the flock and the others are sold at our local livestock market or sent directly for processing. We mainly lamb in later March/April to enable most of the experienced ewes to lamb outdoors and they graze happily all year round on the farm.

 

Rare Breed Sheep

We have a selection of rare breed sheep as part of our flock including the Sussex bred Southdown, Dartmoor, Welsh Mountain, Herdwick, Hebridean and Ryeland. We enjoy the different characters of these sheep and are passionate about conserving and sharing these breeds with visitors at our Open Days and Lambing events.

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Goats

We formed our own small herd of Boer/Dairy cross goats and Pygmy goats as we have a large amount of rough weedy ground on the farm and decided some goats would do it a world of good. 

 

Our pet Pygmy goats also live on the farm, they are usually getting up to all sorts of mischief and keep our shop customers entertained with their antics along with the mischievous Shetland ponies.