Sally’s Ample Bosom bras online enterprise based at the farm has brought her international recognition, has seen her story taken up by a movie deal and celebrates 25 years this year, but Sally explains it could all so easily have been set on a farm much further north. “My late husband John had wanted to move to Scotland,” says Sally. “We went to look at farms up there. I’d said that if we were to move I’d want to start another business and that led to selling bras online.
I can get cows coming to me from Charles on short keep for as little as a fortnight or I get yearlings like a Wagyu steer which went to abattoir and weighed 540 kilos deadweight. It all depends what he’s got a market for. I get paid for keeping them. The third element of Stuart’s cattle enterprise on the farm is fattening dairy-crossed stock for market. “I have 100 British Blue-crossed dairy stock that a livestock agent buys out of Carlisle and that come to me for fattening.