Doing it differently
As with many shoots this year, the arrival of this unwelcome viral gatecrasher forced us into a drastic rethink of how to go about things. Uncertainty has been the overriding feeling that has gripped the country in 2020 and in our world, front-end nervousness from shoots has had a ripple effect down the supply chain. Shoots trying to plan how they could run yet mitigate risk led to game farms entering a state of stasis, unable to plan how many chicks they would need to hatch.
Determined to run a shoot in some way, shape or form, we quickly evolved a plan of action, with a scaled-back operation within Burghley Park itself, and a few walked-up days on the farmland surrounding it. It was a compromise, but we felt it would allow us to keep things running while reducing our financial exposure.
As the plan was put into action,
