Gibside Fruitbowl Trail Race: run with Blackhill Bounders
Jamie Ferry, farmer and sheepdog trainer
Given nine sheep as a boy in Stanley, Jamie Ferry now rents more than 150 acres near Lanchester, keeps around 230 sheep and trains working sheepdogs.
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