Mel graduated from Edinburgh University in 2006 and has worked as a farm vet in North Wiltshire pretty much since then. She loves all aspects of farm vet work but is particularly passionate about farmer and student education via newsletters, workshops and meetings.

Mel’s husband is also a farm vet and they have two school age children, a dog and two cats but they have every intention of extending this menagerie to include bovines and ovines in the future!

She spends much of her spare time walking as far as possible within the constraint of family life but will often cover 8-10 miles of an evening after the kids have gone to bed. Mel also a plays the tenor horn in her local brass band and thoroughly enjoys watching the public enjoy listening to the band playing at summer fetes, bandstands and especially carols at Christmas!