Meet the Team
THE MALIAS
The Coo Keepers.
Meet the Malias, a first-generation farming family based on a sustainable farm in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, raising a variety of pedigree breeds including Highland and Dexter cows, Boer goats and Herdwick, Hebridean, Shropshire and Scottish Blackface sheep as well as 4 children. Which is where our fold name, MaHuRuCo, comes from, the first two letters of each child’s first name.
Paul is our website and marketing manager, as well as a semi-professional photographer, whose love of Highland Cattle helped him battle depression after some tough years. If he hasn’t got a camera in his hand he normally helps groom and keep the over-friendly cows occupied during the Peak Experience.
Finding peace and destressing with ‘Highland Cow Therapy’. He decided to create Highland Cows of the Peak to champion the mental health benefits of being around the cows and out in nature. Hoping to help others or for them to know they are not alone.
It has also become a great community, that shares a love of highlanders, helping people to meet, pet and photograph these beautiful beasts safely.
PAUL
The Cow Chaperone
Helen is usually your guide for the Mini Moo Meet and Greets. She specialises in halter training and the well-being of the young weaned calves on the farm and has been helping look after Highlands since 2016.