Roy & Celia Jones
UpperYardro Farm
Radnorshire, Mid-Wales
UpperYardro Farm and Wolfpits are a 140 hectare upland farm run by the Jones family since 1935. The business is now being run by Roy and Celia Jones and their 3 working sheepdogs, as both their son and daughter work away from the farm.
The holding is a mixed stock farm in the Radnorshire Hills, rising from 800 feet to 1,400 feet, and has been organic since 1998. Grass is the main crop with a few hectares of cereals grown to feed the livestock during the winter months to supplement the home-produced silage and hay.
Organic lamb is reared for Graig Farm from HardySpeckle-faced ewes which thrive on the higher ground. The organic beef is produced from a herd of suckler cows of British native breeds, mainly Welsh Blacks, put to a Charolais bull.The farm is part of the Radnorshire Environmentally Sensitive area since 1996, preserving hedgerows, old hay meadows and wildlife habitats. Work has been done over the past few years with the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research at Aberystwyth, growing different varieties of grass, clover and winter oats to assess their suitability for organic production systems.
