Want to find out what it’s really like living and working on a busy hillside farm?

If you long to escape the city for a change of scene, or want to know if your passion for food can earn you a living, this is your chance!

Over the course of three weeks in August 2017, your new home could be a working farm in beautiful Snowdonia.

Under the watchful and expert eyes of farmers and presenters Kate Humble and Gareth Wyn Jones, you’ll face the challenge of making a living from the land and the 24/7 responsibility that comes with managing livestock and food production on Gareth’s family farm in the Carneddau mountains.

We’re looking for families who are fired up and ready for a change from the usual routine.

We’ll make four one-hour long programmes - to be shown on BBC Television and BBC iPlayer next Spring.

Our cameras will follow life on the farm as you set up home together in a purpose-built yurt camp, and start taking full responsibility for the pigs, cattle, poultry and sheep.

You’ll live in close quarters with other families and face daily challenges which will test your new skills and attitude to farm life.

You’ll get plenty of support from Kate, Gareth and the wider farming community along the way, but this will also be a test in a tough profession and an unique opportunity to realise your dreams and ambitions as a farmer and food producer. No previous experience necessary!

We’d love to hear from you if you dream of a simpler life in the country and are interested in spending a life-changing few weeks on a hillside farm in Snowdonia.

How to get in touch

Email familyfarm@folkfilms.tv to tell us a little about you and your family, and why you’d like to be considered, alternatively give us call on 02920 727 801 or send a letter to:

Folk Films
17 Cathedral Road
Cardiff
CF11 9HA

Your contact details will need to include a phone number.

The closing date is Sunday 11th June.

Please follow us at #bbcfamilyfarm

For full terms and conditions please go to http://folkfilms.tv/casting-terms-conditions

The idea for the museum came from artist Radovan Kraguly, who hails from Bosnia but spent a portion of his life living in mid Wales in the 1970s, which is where he discovered his interest for the challenges facing the milk trade.

His plan has been brought to fruition by another artist, Fernando García-Dory, who was invited to create a piece for Oriel Mostyn as part of Artes Mundi 5.

The model is based on Kraguly's own drawings and features alongside an exhibition of his own work, a collection which highlights his long-lived interest in the estrangement of man from nature.

Lin Cummins, audience relations manager at Oriel Mostyn, told me: "Kraguly sees dairy production as a metaphor for the rift between man and nature, a rift that means many children now don’t realise milk comes from cows and presume it comes from the supermarket.

"He is interested in how farmers have been trapped in a situation where supermarkets can dictate the price of milk and how this has a knock-on effect for animal welfare, because cows have to be farmed so intensively.

"Meanwhile García-Dory is more of an artist activist and he doesn't necessarily produce work that goes on the wall, but that facilitates discussion and debate.

"It's a really engaging exhibition which reaches out to people who perhaps wouldn't normally visit a gallery, something which is really bound up in the ethos of Oriel Mostyn."

The exhibition, which runs through five galleries on the ground floor, has also been used as a way of reaching out to young farmers in the area.

Nia Roberts, visual arts programme manager at Oriel Mostyn, told me how the farmers have been offered training and asked to go out and film video diaries and stories that can be streamed on the internet.

She said: "We have been encouraging them to document their lives and the changes they have seen through the experience of their parents and grandparents.

"We are not asking them to produce masterpieces but to film things on their smart phones and think more visually about what goes on around them and what happens in their daily lives."

The weekend that the museum was opened to the public, local farmers met at the gallery for a discussion group which saw them hold a Skype conversation with William Taylor, coordinator of Fairness for Farmers in Europe, a movement which represents farmers' groups in Britain, Ireland and the EU.

Roberts added: "The whole exhibition really shows how you have to develop and change as a farmer in order to survive – it's a real eye-opener. One of the farms that has donated items told us they have moved into the New Zealand pasture system of farming, where they efficiently graze large numbers of cattle.

"We really hope this will provoke thought among visitors and build strong links with farmers in the local community."

The gallery hopes there will be more discussion events involving farmers at the gallery before the end of the two exhibitions, which run until 6 January 2013. For more information about the dairy museum and the exhibitions visit mostyn.org.