Meet the Dorset couple with 900 sheep but no farm

“We don’t have a farm base at all. We don’t even have a farm business tenancy anywhere,” she said.

“We are just on grazing licences across west Dorset so it’s a lot of driving around, checking, moving sheep.

“It has grown organically. We have been very lucky with the local support from the farming community.”

Grazing licences are short-term agreements that allow livestock owners to graze their animals on another person’s land.

The couple, who live in Cerne Abbas, struck deals with several owners of permanent pasture land, but were only able to expand their operation after securing grazing of winter cover crops on arable farms.