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Is farming as we have always known it, all wrapped up? - a whole farmhouse in the Eden Valley, was entirely wrapped in black plastic, representing the plight of the hill farm. As an 87 year old farmer’s wife was finally moved out of the farmhouse, for the family, as with most of the community, came the realisation that this was the end of an era. But do all of us, now urban creatures, realize the full implications? Do we realise that the countryside we all so love to visit, can only survive if farming does? - and this does not mean 'argi- business' and the eroding wasteland that results... Like a large silage mound or haystack, the house was wrapped in black plastic sheeting and tied up with bailer twine. Monumental and strangely sinister, Croft Farm presented a dark and ominous shape on the landscape....

Is farming as we have always known it, all wrapped up?
- a whole farmhouse in the Eden Valley, was entirely wrapped in black plastic, representing the plight of the hill farm.

As an 87 year old farmer’s wife was finally moved out of the farmhouse, for
the family, as with most of the community, came the realisation that
this was the end of an era. But do all of us, now urban creatures,
realize the full implications? Do we realise that the
countryside we all so love to visit, can only survive if farming
does? - and this does not mean 'argi- business' and the eroding
wasteland that results...

Like a large silage mound or haystack, the house was wrapped in black plastic sheeting and tied up with bailer twine. Monumental and strangely sinister, Croft Farm presented a dark and ominous shape on the landscape....