Jamie’s Farm, Skipton

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Mark Carnie

Mark grew up on his family sheep farm set in the beautiful countryside of Bath, just 10 minutes down the road from Jamie’s Farm Bath. He grew up working with 1,500 breeding ewes and 15 Aberdeen Angus sucklers. Mark went onto working on Neston estate which boarders his family farm, where they ran 1,650 acres of organic arable and milking 160 organic jersey cows twice a day. Mark has always had a passion for working alongside people and found an opportunity to start up the second Jamie’s Farm at Hereford in 2014, which alongside his young family transformed the once stale farm into a thriving, sustainable and profitable farm, whilst working alongside and including hundreds of children and young people who visited. Mark has now taken on the challenge of setting up the new farm in Skipton and is looking forward to creating an oasis for wildlife and young people to enjoy.

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Emily Carnie

Emily grew up in the countryside in Wiltshire and this is where she found her passion for all things outdoors and for exploring. In 2014 when setting up Jamie’s Farm Hereford, she found her true passion for cooking. You can now find Emily cooking alongside the visiting children and young people, coming up with new healthy meals that the young people can cook back at home. Now working at the Skipton farm, Emily is still cooking in the kitchen but sometimes can be found around the farm and in the fields moving sheep.

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Ben Paulden

Ben grew up in Buckinghamshire before studying Marine Biology & Zoology at Bangor University, North Wales. Ben went on to work behind the scenes in secondary schools across the North West for over 15 years, but it was whilst on a residential trip to Jamie’s Farm Monmouth that he had an epiphany and realised he wanted to work more directly with children and young people.

Ben has volunteered across all the farm sites with diverse groups of young people, including a cohort of Jamie’s Farm Ambassadors. Living in the North, Ben jumped at the chance to help out at the new Skipton farm, where he gets involved in a little bit of everything – loving nothing more than sharing his passion for nature with visiting young people in truly breathtaking surroundings.

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Clare Deal

Clare grew up in Wiltshire, down the round from Hill House Farm. She was often found stomping through muddy fields with a lurcher by her side. Leaving farm life behind for cities and books, Clare studied literature at Newcastle University before working as a research assistant on various projects alongside completing her MLitt. Clare particularly enjoyed the challenge and brilliance of working alongside children in care for an educational theatre company. After an autumn working as a writer in Beirut, Clare returned to the UK where she took up a short term role with Jamie’s Farm as a horse specialist in Hereford.

Not quite ready to commit to full-time rural living at that point, Clare left to complete Teach First and subsequently worked as a SEND teacher for a number of years in Newcastle. Clare was delighted to hear the charity were expanding into the North so decided it was time to return to the Skipton team where she spends two days a week. She has also taken up a research position with Birmingham University where she will be completing a doctoral study into how Jamie’s Farm is experienced and remembered by young visitors.

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Louie Clarke

Louie trained as a primary school teacher and taught in London for several years before starting her own family. Whilst her children were very small, she helped with Sunday school classes in her local church and as her children got older, she began to volunteer with a reading charity in a local school where she help a small group of children who were finding reading tricky.  Most recently she became Snowy Owl at Brownies. She helps to make brownie evenings varied and informative and heaps of fun!

She enjoys her garden, particularly growing pretty flowers but is branching out into veggies. Yoga helps to sort out aching limps from all the weeding and her two dogs keep her company! Now that her children are busy at university and finishing the last years of school, it is time for something new and she is looking forward to working with more children and young people at Jamie’s Farm.