RACING up the foothills of the Carneddau mountains, trying to beat the next rain pulse, my opening question for Gareth Wyn Jones is blown away by a breath – no, a howling gale – of fresh air. That’s what it is like meeting Gareth and two of his dogs, Max and Jack, and some of his 4,000 sheep out on the hill. All the complex global, environmental topics that world leaders have to travel to holiday resorts to discuss are answered with fierce directness up here as we shelter among Celtic cairns high above the Menai Strait.
Gareth Wyn Jones has been called “television’s favourite and . Now he is explaining his own farm to . He reveals the bones of the place: “Six thousand years ago, this was an axe factory and all round here you will see the remnants of Celtic burial mounds and cairns. Down there are ancient field systems where my sheep are grazing. My family has worked this land for 375 years. I had a crazy childhood, shooting and hunting and fishing. There was no social media and we would just go off into the mountains, fishing in the lake or shooting rabbits and stray pheasants, or head out sea fishing.”
