Sweetcottongrove began with two guides, a folder of hand-drawn maps and one habit: walk a route twice before taking anybody on it. That habit never went away.
The folder is thicker now and the team is bigger. Nothing else changed: we still test new routes out of season, before a date goes on sale.
A route reaches the catalogue only after we have walked it end to end, in season.
Twelve on the biggest route, six on the tightest. Past that a group stops being a group.
If a bull is hard to handle or a pasture is overgrazed, we tell you straight. No one buying from a bull farm wants a surprise once the cattle feed bill arrives and the calves are already in the barn.
