A selection of Farming and Agricultural workers from across the UK have bared all for the 2010 Farmers Calendar of which the proceeds of any sales will aid St Catherine’s School in Ventnor which specialises in teaching children with speech and learning difficulties.

Initially all of the participants went back to nature to bare all in support of British farming, but it is good to see a worthy charity on the Isle of Wight will benefit from some of the profits. 

The website www.thefarmerscalendar.co.uk on which the annual calendars can be purchased for £5.99 + £1 pp, states: A rare peek at that dying species- the British farmer in its natural habitat. 

The Farmers Calendars of Male and Female variety were initially the idea of Nicola de Pulford, who came up with the idea to create a male and female calendar after the beef ban was enforced.

The first calendar was produced in 1999, and since then it has snowballed. Nicola now produces two calendars a year, and has raised about £100,000 for charity.

There is nothing raunchy or lascivious and no cauliflowers were harmed in the making of the publication. As we discovered a slice of the procceds of the 2010 calendar will go to St Catherine’s School www.stcatherines.org.uk in Ventnor, a very good Island cause. 

Why not pop along to the website, take a peep and then purchase the calendar for someone you love for Christmas, you know you want to visit… www.thefarmerscalendar.co.uk

Update: and there’s more from Nicola here… Does my bum look big in this calendar?

Moving out to the countryside, photographer Nicola de Pulford has been taking the shots for the Lady Farmers’ calendar for many years. You don’t officially have to be a mad cow to offer to pose for her, but it might help.

“All a farmer has to do is ring me up and we will go along and take his or her picture,” said de Pulford, who also produces a male version of the calendar featuring the very best of British beef.

“We’ve been doing this for about seven years now and we sell the calendar all over the world. When I turn up, I’ve got no idea what the farmer and his wife are going to look like. But there is never any shortage of volunteers. I could fill the calendars for the next few years already.”

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