Harper Life Magazine 2020

—Harper Life Nov 2020 16 I married Imogen Goatman (now Mrs Greenaway) who was a Harper graduate in 2013, in 2015 near Chepstow. We now have two little girls Lillie 3 1/2 and Naomi 1 1/2. I manage a 4,000 acre combinable business in Gloucestershire for Richard Beldam Farms and have, over the past five years, gained FACTS, BASIS (I was nominated for the Barry Orme award after being nominated as best in my class), Plant Protection Award, John Edgar Trust course and I am currently part way through the AHDB PMDS 20 (Professional Management Development Scheme) course to be completed in November 2020. Imogen worked for Dunns of Long Sutton as a transport manager amongst other roles before giving up to become a full time mum for the time being. She is ambitious enough to go back to work in the agricultural industry long term. We are doing well and are very happy. Having met in our first year, both freshers in Boughey Hall, we are pleased to have celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary in May 2020. We married soon after leaving, in 1990, and have been living, farming and raising our three boys in East Devon ever since. In 2004 we moved all of eight miles, having bought a derelict smallholding near Sidmouth. We are still knocking the place into shape and have the usual menagerie of smallholding animals plus a small flock of Romney sheep. Nic is also very keen on her horses and competitive dressage. For the past 30 years we have been heavily involved in caravans and camping, originally as a farm diversification, and we still own and run a caravan storage business near our home. Carol and I are back in the UK once again. I have returned to the small country estate that I managed from 2007 – 2011, when we returned to NZ. The opportunity came up to return and bring the property back in to some order. It was all rather disappointing to see the neglect when I arrived but, of course, the position would not have been open to me if everything was fine. We are likely to return to NZ in 2021 and in theory ‘retire’. Simon Stokes (1985-89), standing at what is now the site of the Bamford Library. He writes: “Myself in front of our Harper rowing trailer prior to a regatta, probably 1986. A student nicknamed ‘Brock’ wanted to start a rowing club whilst at Harper and a few of us were persuaded to sign up. We trained at the Pengwern Rowing Club in Shrewsbury and did a few regattas.” After an absence, rowing is again popular among Harper Adams students now, who again train at Pengwern in Shrewsbury and compete throughout the country when they can. Chris Greenaway 2007 – Simon Stokes, BSc Agric Technology, 1985 – 1989 and Nicola Stokes (neeMunden), HNDAgric, 1985 – 1988 Richard Kenyon 1971 Students on my BSc Agric Tech course in 1989 – Simon Stokes. www.harper-adams.ac.uk