Roland: Yeah, yeah, the farm. My father bought the farm, this farm, when I was about 8, so that would be back in…the 60s. Um, we farmed this, the sheep and cattle, well and dairy cows to start with. We gave up the dairy cows fairly soon after that, and we gave up the cattle then 15 years ago as well. So it's…it’s changed in that way that we've just gone purely sheep now, especially now that we've got the Salt Marsh Lamb like we need basically as many sheep as we can get for…for the little enterprise we just started.

Interviewer Sian Green: Have sort of the farming methods stayed roughly the same or is there much change there?

Roland: Um, well mechanically wise, obviously, has gone from very small tractors now to the 100 horsepower tractors. That's the main difference and…as far as the sheep production that wouldn't have changed an awful lot, I wouldn’t have thought.

Interviewer Vicki Thompson: Do you feel overall that the landscape of farming has changed and is that a good thing?

Roland: The landscape of farming, right…Um right, well I suppose there's fewer farmers about, so there's obviously larger farmers. That doesn't really apply too much on Gower I don't think they tend to be kept fairly small farms. Obviously, there's the arable setup that used to be on the South of Gower has…has gone, what we called the vile, everybody had their little acre patches have moved on, but that's gone a good many years now. It's a job to compete financially with the big farmers, you know, the big…big machinery, and it just wasn't economical to carry on at such a small scale. Um…What else has changed? Let me have a think now.
There’s possibly a few fields, small fields that have been knocked into one, so perhaps a couple of hedgerows gone. But as I say, I don't think that applies so much on Gower as what it does, sort of upcoming somewhere.