... is a National Trust hill farm in the thick of the Lake District. It's an SSI (Site of Scientific Interest) and conservation issues are key: traditional building materials are used to convert an old farm building into a camping barn, and it's a labourious and expensive process, the chipping away of the old cement to be replaced with lime.

Differences in farming are enormous and represent more than changes in landscape (soil, climate), but of ideas, and attitudes (although these to some degree find themselves in matching landscapes). Highthwaite is a world away from Brownfield; not only is it the other side of the country and predominantly about rearing sheep rather than cattle, but the decision-making process is governed by a differing set of principles; aesthetics and social and historical values are accommodated alongside the commercial output of farming, and the farm is a reflection of these concerns.