‘It's a lovely way of life'

Young shepherdess Chloe Hallam on the challenges of the lambing season and modern farming...

- TESS LAMACRAFT

LAMBING LIFE

NEW WEDNESDAY / BBC1 / 7.30PM / FACTUAL

Sleepless nights, being on call 24/7 and physically demanding work is par for the course for young sheep farmer Chloe Hallam.

Lambing Life, this week’s programme in BBC1’s Our Lives documentary series, follows Chloe from March to May as over 1,000 lambs are born on the family farm near Glossop in Derbyshire, where Chloe lives with dad David, mum Kerry, and younger sister Rosie.

Here, in an exclusive interview with TV Times, Chloe, 24, who also runs a holistic therapy business to supplement her farming income, tells us more...

What do you like most about living and working on a farm?

I love the whole lifestyle. The farm has been in our family for four generations. It’s a lovely way of life.