AE&WA Farr/Bygrave Woods (Herts)

AE & WA Farr say they are “a 3rd and 4th generation family run business, with an evolving approach to traditional farming, set in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.” Owners of Newnham Farm, the Farr family, are known for their shooting images on social media, and along with Director Ed Wainwright-Lee, a cousin of the Farrs, were the subject of a July 2024 Reddit thread asking why the Vegan Camp Out (VCO) 2025 Festival would be held on their property. Links in the thread pointed to a photo op of Mr Wainwright-Lee riding with the Puckeridge Hunt: the same thread states (correctly) “Ed’s photo with the Puckeridge [is] from an article about “Autumn Hunting” also known as cubbing where the hounds are trained to kill by targeting young fox cubs as an easy prey.” In August 2025, Hertfordshire Hunt Sabs posted “C𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐍 𝐀 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄” on Facebook further slamming the venue and pointing out to visitors that they should “remember you are on a shooting estate. If you do go wandering about you will see pens crammed with hundreds of pheasant poults getting bigger to be shot in weeks to come.” VCO says that the actual venue of the Camp Out, Bygrave Woods, “has nothing to do with animal activities/chicken farming…Every single outdoor venue in the country unfortunately is connected with animal agriculture in some way… or that the land itself is used for animal farming/shooting/hunting etc..it’s about as close to being vegan friendly land as you can possibly get for an outdoor festival venue in the UK.” For a festival explicitly labelled as ‘vegan’, is ‘close enough’ good enough…we don’t think so.