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Creating a festive income stream

Located just outside the rural Cambridgeshire town Warboys, one arable enterprise has been significantly expanded after a holiday to Sweden sparked a diversification idea

Ashleigh Ellwood
Head of Arable
clock • 7 min read
Creating a festive income stream

The 1,000-hectare farm started as a Royal Air Force Bombers site in the Second World War, which was decommissioned in the late 1960s and bought straight from the military by Jamie Stokes' grandfather,...

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