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My name is Mark Lee and I 
farm here with my wife Jenny.

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We are at Park House Organic Farm.

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We milk 130 Friesian Jersey cross cows 

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who are outside on grass for 300 days a year.

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And we use the milk
to produce our own cheese and butter.

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Having sprayed a field

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back in 2016 to get rid of some weeds
and one of the nozzles

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in our sprayer blocking, the field was striped

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and we realized the cows are grazing
the bits that hadn't been sprayed.

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So that was our light bulb moment
where we thought,

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Well, what are we actually doing
by spraying the fields?

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And then we took the next step,
which was becoming organic

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and thinking more about the soils
and the grasses

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that we grow so that we had full control
over what the cows were eating.

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We became 100% PFLA certified,

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so we just feed the cows pasture
because we don't use chemical fertilizer,

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we don't spray, we don't use any pesticides.

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We're trying to farm with nature
rather than battling against it constantly

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because it is only
ever going to be one winner.

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We work closely with our 
relationship manager at Barclays.

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We really value
having that personal, traditional touch.

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This is a third generation farm,
and my dad and my granddad

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both banked with Barclays and
they have seen many changes on the farm

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and they're always there to discuss
any changes, any new ideas we have.

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When you make fundamental changes
to the way that you farm, it comes at a cost.

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So we needed to partner up with a bank
that we could trust

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and a bank that we knew would deliver for us.

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We produce cheese and butter

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for over 20 different outlets
locally within Cumbria.

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We're producing and selling
milk directly to six coffee shops,

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and we're reducing the amount of plastic
in that supply chain.

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It's really important in terms of a connection for 
people to understand where their food’s from

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and it gives us a great opportunity to 
explain how we farm and why we farm

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and how that product is directly 
related to where they live.