‘These sheep look like they’ve grown out of the soil’
Lindsay Neal meets the fourth and fifth generations of a family of west Dorset sheep farmers
Published in February ’22
Francis Fooks and Teal with some of the flock and the church of St Mary Magdalene behind
‘BEAUTIFULLY proportioned, sturdy, docile and unerringly versatile, these sheep are as easy to work with as they are on the eye.’ That’s how Francis Fooks describes Dorset Horn sheep. With his brothers, Michael, David and Jeffrey, Francis farms the land their grandfather took on in 1920 with its flock of Dorset Horns established by their great-grandfather in 1906. Grazing the hills and fields around North Poorton, as they have for more than a century, the Fooks family’s sheep are more precious than they could ever know – for they …
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