My friend and mentor Les Jones, who has died aged 90, was an economics teacher at schools in Oxfordshire and Shropshire, but also had a side existence as an organic farmer during the 1980s and 90s.
In 1982 Les bought a 25-acre smallholding, The Hollows, in the Stiperstones hills in Shropshire, where – while still teaching – he raised sheep, goats, geese and chickens and grew organic courgettes, beans and potatoes. He was also involved in setting up Bishops Castle and South Shropshire Credit Union.
