The Farmers Mart Jun/Jul 2015 - Issue 40 | Page 48

Bridge House Farm

PASSIONATE FARMERS
Rural agriculture meets urban challenges
Ian Wilkinson headed to Bridge Farm, Handforth, Wilmslow
to meet Mark Shenton, the fourth generation of a farming
family which has been in the area for generations.
»»Father and son team

locals feeding them. As a

Mark and Chris Shenton

result, these tame urban foxes

along with their wives Kate

have often come into the farm

and Debbie, are passionate

and causing mayhem, killing

farmers. But they admit it

and maiming the chickens and

is tough, dealing with the

lambs.

many challenges that are

The area also has many

increasingly a headache for

badgers which give cause

farms like theirs that now

for concern, and there have

are in urban locations. There

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