E B Reaves

My Bio Edward Brunheld Reeves was born in Kenya where his parents worked in the diplomatic corps and owned a goat farm. Privately educated in the Hills of Mid Wales he graduated with a Land Management Degree (2nd class) from Cambridge (Polytechnic). He describes himself as a keen sheep enthusiast. Indeed when in school he would spend hours on his uncles organic uplands farm looking for their feral forest kept rare breeds. Anything to get away from bullying and rugger! Whilst not actually owning sheep of his own, he has kept up this interest in agriculture showing his parents goats and Wiltshire Horn sheep at county and Royal Shows throughout the country. When asked where he finds the time he states that being a committed bachelor has certain perks. On leaving Cambridge he worked briefly in the City before brief stints at EBLEX, Inovis, SAC and Moredun. A Nuffield scholar he spent 6 months in New Zealand looking at "how to keep welfarists off your back in an easy care system". On returning to the UK he put his experience to immediate use setting up an ostrich farm on his parent's small holding. When that folded he set up his Sheep Breeding Consultancy "Ovines++" and is on the advisory committee of the NSA, the livestock committee at RASE, the Wool Board and is heavily involved in HRH Prince Charles' campaigns for mutton and wool. He is available as a show judge and witty after dinner speaker! EB Reeves is a pen name.