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James Robinson is the fifth generation of his family to farm at Strickley, near Kendal, in Cumbria, which he runs in tandem with his Dad, Henry, and older son, Robert, who’s shaping up to be the sixth. Not only have the family been in residence since 1875, but their herd of pedigree dairy shorthorns also boasts a 150-year lineage.

James is currently England chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network and is incredibly passionate about his family’s role as custodians of the landscape, planting hedges, re-wiggling becks, creating ponds and revelling in the wildlife thriving alongside the cows on their farm.

The Robinsons are about to start the next chapter of their Strickley story, by processing their own milk and selling it direct to local people, harking back to James’ great-great-grandparents, who would make their milk into prize-winning butter and sell it at Kendal Market.

In this programme, Helen Millican spends a day on the farm with James, Henry, Robert and Arthur Robinson, turning calves out, repairing fences and rebuilding dry stone walls, as they mark 150 years of the Robinsons and their cows at Strickley.

Presented and produced by Helen Millican