Ross has 15 years of hands-on experience of working on, and managing farms. He is passionate about the farming world and the countryside, he is essential to the Trust’s vision of influencing farmers from the inside.

Ross has written columns for “Rural News” in New Zealand as well as “Manitoba Cooperator” in Canada and in May 2001, he was part of a lecture tour to New Zealand to talk about Foot and Mouth Disease. A trip to South Korea to discuss Modern art in 2004 was one of the more bizarre events in his life.

He is currently a partner in his 220 acre organic family farm in Devon which is a mixed stock enterprise, where he lives with his wife and 2 children. His other interests include cricket, fishing, walking and travel.