Tag Archives: #Save1Family

An NHS to be proud of

 While good news stories rarely make the headlines, Oaks Barn Farm’s Wayne Smith as a follow on from his recent article in the Farmers Guardian, Wayne was video interviewed on Wednesday by Susan Kirkpatrick Senior Researcher from The University of Oxford as part of the Inquire Research Project.   INQUIRE (Improving NHS quality usingContinueContinue reading “An NHS to be proud of”

Digging for Bowel Cancer

What a difference a day makes at Oaks Barn Farm, we approached one of our Twitter Friends @Scottlar https://twitter.com/scottylar to do some metal detecting on our bottom fields, he said he would pay £15 per day to let him detect we said we would match fund his contribution if we could donate it towards Bowel Cancer Awareness,ContinueContinue reading “Digging for Bowel Cancer”

An Interview With Farmers Guardian

Tomorrow I am being Interviewed by Emily Cole of the Farmers Guardian, we first spoke to Emily as part of last years British Farming Awards under the Category of Digital Innovator and today I have been approached to tell my story, on my encounter with Bowel Cancer and raising awareness amongst the Farming Community about theContinueContinue reading “An Interview With Farmers Guardian”

Farmer Travelling Post Cancer

Pre Holiday Checks So with more personal care supplies than a new born baby, my first holiday outside of the U.K. post cancer began today. getting away from the farm has never been easy, generally it takes 2 weeks of planning and organising hastily remembering all of the things you are likely to forget. CoupleContinueContinue reading “Farmer Travelling Post Cancer”

Winning my fight with bowel cancer

Insight Working on our family farm really was the perfect life, spending my days in the countryside working with the seasons, growing our own fruit and veg and rearing our own meat was the perfect blend for fitness and a healthy balanced diet with a rural lifestyle I was proud to be part of. OverContinueContinue reading “Winning my fight with bowel cancer”