Farmhouse Breakfast competition runner-up: About Elizabeth Elder

Elizabeth and husband Jake – who have two children –have farmed 235ha of hill ground on the Otterburn Firing Range in Northumberland since 1994. Prior to this Jake worked as a shepherd.

They have 520 breeding ewes and 30 suckler cows, and went organic in 2001.

Brought up on a dairy farm, Elizabeth was an accountant by training, specialising in corporate finance and business reviews. She still does some part-time business consultancy.