Stephen Fletcher
Ram Hall stands on a knoll surrounded by a 200 acre estate (and the remains of its moat!) near Balsall Common in Warwickshire. It has been farmed for five generations by the Fletcher family and at present by Stephen Fletcher with his parents, Peter and Sheila. Stephen left Shuttleworth College in the 1980s with an interest in sheep. At that time the farm was milking 100 cows but Stephen decided to milk sheep with the object of selling frozen milk to health food shops, starting out with 45 ewes. The product wasn’t a success and a neighbouring farmer’s daughter, who had trained in cheesemaking, came over and made some cheese from the ewe’s milk using kitchen utensils. After some further development work, the first Berkswell cheese was born.