2021
Finalist for an EVAS award in the Creative Industry section
Finalist in the Diversification of the Year category in the Cumbria Farmer Awards
2020
Advisory Board awarded for 12 months from Be The Business 2019 – 2020
Ongoing monthly column writers for Cumbria Life magazine
April
Farmers Guardian feature
March
Countrystride podcast episode. Listen here.
February
Speakers at Farmer’s Weekly Diversification event at Lakeland Farm Visitor Centre
January
Speakers at the Oxford Real Farming Conference
BBC Radio 4 On Your Farm feature. Listen here.
2019
Rural Business Awards North – finalists for Best Rural Diversification Project 2019
Family Business of the Year Award – finalist for Hotel and Leisure Family Business 2019
Farmer of the Month – Westmorland Gazette 2019
Cumbria Family Business of The Year 2019 – winner in Farming and Forestry 2019
Presentation to Economics department at Shimonoseki City University, Japan
KBS radio interview, Kyoto, Japan
Farm Business Innovation Show presentation, Birmingham
Feature in Cumbria Life magazine
Feature on BBC programme Walks of Life (series 1, episode 1)
Feature in Country Smallholding magazine
2018
Joe’s Jug awarded from the Castlemilk Moorit Sheep Society 2018
Certificate of Recognition for Entrepreneurial Woman of Cumbria – Beatrix Potter Society 2018
Presentation for Northern Yarn Wool Week event, Lancaster Museum
Feature in Spinnuts magazine, Japan
2017
Presentation at Chisholme Institute, Scotland
Feature in The Knitter magazine