The Great Bear transcript (extracts)

The Great Bear
Jenny Holt

English Oak
Sessile Oak
Pedunculate Oak
Japonica
Leyland Cypress
Red Cedar
Western Hemlock
Silver Birch
Poplar

Red kites, buzzards, kestrels, sparrow hawks. They’re our birds of prey. And then we have cuckoos and jays and everything that bomb about you, as well as all the little songbirds.

Trees grow nice and slow and steady, and the kind of work that revolves around them can be as well. 

Dotty
Princess
Buttercup
Felicity
Pixie
Pluto
Maisy
Panda
Crazy Eyes
Ponda
Smiler
Choppy
Patch 

I do get upset when my animals go. I do cry. But the day that I stop getting upset when I take my animals for slaughter is the day that I’ll quit, because that’s the day I won’t care anymore. 

My family moved up here in 1820, so I’m seventh generation. Always been on this same farm from then really.

Ever since I could walk and talk I suppose I’ve wanted to farm.

Pink Ladies
Bramleys
British Cox Apple
Royal Gala
Braeburn
Smitten Apple
Granny Smith

Plum punnets, and peaches, and Russia pears.

Indonesia
Timor
Malaysia
Portugal
Poland
Lithaunia
India
Pakistan

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