The Farmers Mart Feb/Mar 2016 - Issue 44 | Page 48

High Bohemia Farm

Beef success
and family
sadness at
High Bohemia
Chris Berry talks with John
and James Edgar
»»SEVENTEEN DAYS AFTER I

someone for the first time who

visited the Edgars at High

is no longer with us less than

Bohemia Farm, near Wigginton

three weeks later and no longer

to interview them about their

able to read their own quotes.

latest success James, his mum

I’ve written about farms and

Margaret, and his sisters Emma

farming families for 25 years and

and Amanda said goodbye to

in that time I have experienced

their father and husband John

many emotions through those

who passed away on New Year’s

I’ve interviewed. What I can tell

Eve having been diagnosed

you is that John approached his

with cancer last summer. I

final days with a calmness, quiet

make no excuses for starting

dignity and gentle humour that

this story this way as it will

spoke volumes for the man who

clearly still be uppermost and

James describes as ‘the best

raw in their minds as I write

stockman in the area’.

this only six weeks on; and
because it is John who
made the farm what
it is today, with
a reputation
for producing

but they were both checking
things with him so much that
we all went through to chat
with him in the living room.

fantastic

‘I found out about the cancer

quality

in July,’ he said. ‘It’s been a

cattle.

downhill trend since then and

It’s not
often I meet

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I’d been talking with James
and Margaret in the kitchen

I think it’s a no hoper.’ The
smile John gave as he said