My name is Peter Cheek and I’m the farm manager for Godminster Farm

I came to Godminster in March 1998 when the farm was half way through organic conversion, converting 220ha and managing 180 pedigree Dutch Holsteins, now we are farming 445ha with a herd of 300 cross bred cows where 40 per cent of the milk goes to a local dairy for the liquid market and the rest going to Wyke Farms for cheese processing.

For the last 4 years we have been growing herbal leys in our grazing platform and have been part of a farmers innovation trial run by the soil association learning how best to establish and utilise these leys to gain maximum benefit from them.