i leave the city for the rolling hills of the brecon beacons, less than an hour s drive from cardiff. the national park is home to over 1,000 farms largely dedicated to livestock. and with over 250,000 visitors a year, one particularly savvy farmer has developed an interesting business model trekking with sheep. he s checking me out. he sjust checking, he s checking i m all good. his problem is he can t really see very well because his hair is so long, it s in his face. meet patches, my new pal for the afternoon. do you want more food? i need to prove that i m your friend. oh, it feels really weird on my hand! you ve got a very warm tongue there, patches. come on! patches, you can have more food in a moment. the plan is to follow a trail around the farm with my fluffy companion.
is so long, it s in his face. meet patches, my new pal for the afternoon. do you want more food? i need to prove that i m your friend. oh, it feels really weird on my hand! you ve got a very warm tongue there, patches. come on! patches, you can have more food in a moment. the plan is to follow a trail around the farm with my fluffy companion. he s pretty obedient. sometimes he kind of veers to the left or right and i feel like i m the one being walked. it turns out to be trickier than it looks. come on, patches. come on. so, nicola, since lockdown, have you seen demand for this experience growing? yeah, so a lot of people want to be outside in the open air. this experience, because we re able to be distanced, there isn t so much pressure on that and people just enjoy being with the sheep and being able to stroke the sheep and actually being able to physically be around them, whereas normally, theyjust see them in the fields and they run away!
more food in a moment. the plan is to follow a trail around the farm with my fluffy companion. he s pretty obedient. sometimes he kind of veers to the left or right and i feel like i m the one being walked. it turns out to be trickier than it looks. come on, patches. come on. so, nicola, since lockdown, have you seen demand for this experience growing? yeah, so a lot of people want to be outside in the open air. this experience, because we re able to be distanced, there isn t so much pressure on that and people just enjoy being with the sheep and being able to stroke the sheep and actually being able to physically be around them, whereas normally, theyjust see them in the fields and they run away! when we first opened, it was quite slow, we didn t really have that many people. i think people were a bit wary. they were like, oh, really? walking sheep? i ve not actually heard about that before.
he s checking me out. he sjust checking, he s checking i m all good. his problem is he can t really see very well because his hair is so long, it s in his face. meet patches, my new pal for the afternoon. do you want more food? i need to prove that i m your friend. oh, it feels really weird on my hand! you ve got a very warm tongue there, patches. come on! patches, you can have more food in a moment. the plan is to follow a trail around the farm with my fluffy companion. he s pretty obedient. sometimes he kind of veers to the left or right and i feel like i m the one being walked. it turns out to be trickier than it looks.
the national park is home to over a thousand farms largely dedicated to livestock. and with over 250,000 visitors a year, one particularly savvy farmer has developed an interesting business model trekking with sheep. he s checking me out. he sjust checking, he s checking i m all good. his problem is he can t really see very well because his hair is so long, it s in his face. meet patches, my new pal for the afternoon. do you want more food? i need to prove that i m your friend. oh, it feels really weird on my hand! you ve got a very warm tongue there, patches. come on! patches, you can have more food in a moment. the plan is to follow a trail around the farm with my fluffy companion. he s pretty obedient. sometimes he kind of veers to the left or right and i feel like i m the one being walked. it turns out to be trickier than it looks. come on, patches.