In the Spring of 2001 more than 8.5 million cattle and sheep were slaughtered to control the tide of foot and mouth sweeping the country. The areas that were hit the hardest were Cumbria and Devon. Philiy has been following three farming families since that time, returning every year. For the three generations of the Gillbard family, they want to continue farming, for the bachelor, Wallace Boundy, he knows no other life and for The Pettyfers, their children are off to college with farming very far from their dreams for the future.
