Tina's family moved onto Bar Hill House Farm at Madeley , when she was 4 years old. Most of the land is rented out to Dairy farmers . Her father discouraged her from going into farming but she and Charles grew their own food before she moved back onto the farm and they took over 8 acres. They now farm 60 or more acres and sell their meat directly to the public.

The farm has 200 breeding ewes, 30/40 heifers that are kept outside for 20 months, 3 breeding sows and a boar producing litters of Tamworth pigs and a handful of hens for their eggs. The farm is not organic but the animals are reared in traditional ways, without the use of fertilisers and brought inside only when necessary.

Tina and Charles were selling their lambs at the livestock market up to the time of animal movement restrictions due to the foot and mouth epidemic. The livestock market was replaced by Collection Centres and the fact that they were not able to bring unsold lambs back to the farm left them vulnerable to exploitation by unscrupulous buyers. They were already producing freezer packs for family and friends so Charles sought advice from the environmental health officers and purchased a refrigerated compartment that had previously been built onto a lorry.

They put a sign up on the road outside the farm advertising their meat and in their first week-end, sold enough lamb to cover the cost of the refrigeration plant. They now sell a range of meats and any size of cuts from a single chop onwards. They do not advertise other than producing a leaflet and placing the sign at the farm entrance. Their customers tend to be regulars and some come from far afield.

The business has built up gradually. Tina and Charles are now looking to develop a line in hand raised pork pies in conjunction with a local baker. They feed the pigs on waste grain from the Titanic micro-brewery in Stoke and produce their own 'Titanic sausages'.