As of 2023, there are three generations of Legges farming at Shortwood.

David Legge has been farming at Shortwood Farm since he left school in the late 1960’s. Living just down the road from the farm after he married Janet, they have taken the farm from strength to strength farming every farm-able animal you could think of from dairy cattle to the infamous racing pigs featured on the One Show. In 1987, David and Janet decided that it was time to open the farm to the public, becoming the well renowned Shortwood Family Farm for 29 years until its closure in 2016.

In the early 2000’s, they welcomed their daughter, Gina, onto the farm full-time after she spent a year on a New Zealand farm and completed her degree in agriculture from Harper Adams University in 2002. Gina still works on the farm to this day and her and her husband Adam run their own business, Turners Agricultural Engineers, from Shortwood Farm. David and Janet’s son, Anthony, at the same time was working hard to set up his butchery and farm shop, Legges of Bromyard, which is now a well established and flourishing business supplying the surrounding areas and nationally with local meats, produce and fabulous pork pies.

In September 2023, David and Janet’s grandson, James, graduated with a degree in Agriculture and Farm Management from the Royal Agricultural University and has joined the family farm with the hopes of bringing new techniques and diversification ideas to help Shortwood adapt to the modern climate of farming.