Get to know a fourth -generation family member managing this Durham Farm County – Yahoo News UK

A fourth -generation family member joined the team at the Durham Regional Farm Center.

26 -year -old Harvey Barx helps his parents manage the Thorpe Farpe Center near Barnard Castle.

As part of his role, he bears not only the daily management of the farm, but also for his future development.

This includes The Courtyard Farm Shop, a gift shop, a restaurant and a reclamation and antique center for Peel House.

It also includes the Holiday Park Thorpe Farm, which has lodges, static and touring caravans and tent terrains.

Harvey with her parents Paul and Joe Barx (Image: Thorpe Farmer Center)

Barkes said, “I like to develop Thorpe Farm year of year.

“I strive to become a place where locals and these vacations here can enjoy the attempt to be on a farm, appreciate the surrounding area and everything we can offer, and also well serves everything we are developing on the spot. “

The Thorpe Farm was bought by Harvey’s great -grandfather, Percy Barcai in 1936 and has been grown for three generations afterwards.

When Harvey’s father, Paul, returned from college in 1983, he managed a mixed cattle farm.

Together with his wife Joe, he diversified the Thorpe farm by opening a public in 2001 with a farmer’s store and a cafe located in Peel House.

Unfortunately, legs and mouth struck the United Kingdom’s cultivation in the same year, which contributed to Paul and Joe’s decision to build retail and hospitality.

The more diversification came in 2006, with the first five terrains for the new caravan park, which Harvey, then 8 years old, remembers.

He said, “As children, it was really exciting when different people came to stay on the farm.

“The continued development of Thorpe Farm was my home life.

“I remember, at 11, helping my father expand the tourist park.

“We were out one day late in the afternoon.

“It was December, so it was freezing and there was a horizontal snow, but it didn’t matter. We were busy putting new bases for tourist caravans.

“It was great, I loved him.

“I always helped when I had free time at this age.

“I look back now and see areas of the park where I can imagine bright to help my father do something to help progress the site and it’s really nice.”

Since then, the holiday park has expanded to include static caravans, seasonal terrains and caravans and tents tours.

The CourTyard store and restaurant opened in May Bank Holiday Weekend in 2018, 17 years after Harvey’s parents opened their original cafe and an agricultural store in Peel House.

He was educated at the Barnard Castle School, followed by the university, where he graduated from the four -year business with the international management, which included annual accommodation in the industry.

He spent this time at Cranswick PLC, a FTSE250 food production company operating in their Sherbourne on the Elt site near Leeds.

He said, “I’m so glad I had this opportunity.

“At Cranswick, I saw the importance of processes and business structure.

“He really informed me how I am getting into development here now in Thorpe Farm.”

After returning to Teendale in 2022, he works almost exclusively at the Thorpe Farm Center and now watches how the business can develop for the future.

Harvey said: “The Center of Torpe’s Farm was influenced on foot and mouth, through changes to the A66 with the Farm and Covid Lockdowns.

“Now I would like Thorpe Farm to become as much a destination for people who live in Tieysdale and North Yorkshire Dales as for those with tour and static caravans.

“My great-grandfather, my grandfather, and in particular, my father put years of grafting at the Thorpe Farmers Center.

“My goal is to continue this trip, to grow up and grow my business further, and thus make my parents and their parents be proud.”