ONE Dorset great-grandma is still bringing in the harvest at 86.

Purbeck pensioner Win Foot has just completed the harvest, using her skills behind the controls of a combine harvester after more than 70 years working on the land.

She was out at Haywards Farm, the family’s 550 acre arable farm in Bere Regis, earlier this month.

Win works on the farm with her husband Alan and son Christopher and spends most of the harvest time out all day on the fields.

Born in Othery, Somerset, into a farming family, she married Alan Foot in the 50s.

The couple now have five grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

Mrs Foot’s daughter, Jenny Franklin, said the whole family was extremely proud of her.

She said: “She regularly still works on the family’s arable farm which is 550 acres at Bere Regis. She enjoys driving a combine harvester during harvest time and driving a tractor cultivating and rolling throughout the year.

“In her spare time she loves gardening, sewing, flower arranging, making home-made chutneys and jams. For a long time she has raised money for various charities by selling plants and home produce throughout the year.

“Her family are extremely proud of her and the hard work that she has done and continues to do.”

Win moved to Bere Regis when she married her husband in 1955 and says she can still remember her father getting his first tractor in 1935.

Her new modern combine harvester is a far cry from her early farming days when horses were used.

Speaking to the Echo a few years ago when she was 82, Win said she believed she was rarity in farming but that farming felt ‘normal’ to her as she had grown up with it.

She added that she liked to keep active and busy.

She said: “I don’t know of another woman my age doing it. But I’m just used to it.

“I was born into farming back when horses were used. I started doing odd jobs to help my dad on our farm when I was about nine or 10.

“When I met my husband he already owned a farm and I used to do milking and harvesting with a reaper binder which my sister and I used to do when we were younger.”