Karl Starkie is a time-served injection moulding tool maker. He is a third generation part-time beef farmer in the south Pennines on a 70 acre SDA farm on the urban fringe and runs 20 suckler cows with all young stock sold as stores at weaning. He has Interests in mob grazing and improving soil health on his steep pasture. He is a member of the south Pennines farmers group and Instigated the TFF Grassroots Group.