Jimmy's Farm (Wherestead)

The summer holidays are a bit of a nightmare when you have small children, because all of a sudden everything is suddenly overrun with larger children and their parents. I have been actively avoiding some of our usual hangouts because heat, crowds and lots of other children don't go well with my heavily pregnant and hormonal self. So it was with trepidation that I agreed to a day trip to Jimmy's Farm with my friend and her daughter. ***What is Jimmy's Farm?*** Since 2002 a production company have filmed the establishment of Jimmy's Farm, a pig farm for rare breeds just outside Ipswich (Suffolk). The eponymous 'Jimmy' is Jimmy Doherty, a friend of ...  Read the complete review

It may have been a demoralising, grey-skied Sunday afternoon, but in one small corner of rural Suffolk, the day-trippers were out in force. A laneway, fringed with hedgerow, meandered down through a couple of wintry fields, and passed a small pocket of untidy forest. A few small pigs foraged amidst the bracken. Finally, the lane concluded on a large field, which served as a sort of impromptu car park. There are dozens of Farm Shops in Suffolk, but few of them have car parks on this scale. This, however, is no ordinary Farm Shop. It may be a smallholding, but it's becoming big business. THE PIG FARMER: The fortunes of the 'Essex Pig Company' have grown ...  Read the complete review