Adrian Lowe describes himself as one of the "smaller farmers“. A clear understatement, seeing that his land ownership comprises 78 km², comparable to the British Channel Island Guernsey close to the French coast. The only difference is that now only he and his wife Lisa live on Murrell Farm and more than 62,000 people reside on Guernsey. Adrian is always very laidback and sophisticated, but he gets really enthusiastic when he talks about his wife Lisa's cooking skills. For him a culinary epiphany is taking a crispy leg of lamb from his own land out of the peat oven, accompanied by homemade bread with fresh butter and milk from their own cows. The changes in daily living habits that for us have taken place over a period of several centuries, took place on the Falkland Islands in just a few decades. And with eloquent stories, Adrian likes to take his guests on that exciting journey: In his youth, horses were the only means of transportation. He used to ride long distances to the stations (farms with large properties), sleep there, help with the sheep shearing for several days and then people would celebrate the happiest of parties. Only very lately horses were replaced by Land Rovers. And still then, until the 1980s, the settlements in the camp and his farm could only be reached cross-country. He loved getting up at four in the morning, accompanied by the song of birds, to dig peat, hard work that could take months. Now this work is done by machines in a few hours. Today he has exchanged the horse for a Defender – although still a classic one. You now find good roads for traffic. Farms like his are well equipped with wind power, solar energy, generators and the Internet. But in his heart, Ade never looses the calmness and pleasure when he sits down in his armchair in the evening and looks from the living room window at the Murrell – at peace with the world.
