Broad Oak farm is an 83acre (33.8ha) predominantly arable farm,the tenancy of which is held from the National Trust.

Stephen Booth is the third generation of his family to be tenant at this farm,and the fifth generation to farm on the estate of Dunham Massey formerly owned by the late Lord Stamford.

The arable crops grown in rotation on the farm are potatoes,peas and wheat.There are two small meadows of grassland,part of which is home to the Chapel Herd of Pedigree Essex and British Saddleback pigs.

The farm is also home to H.Booth and Son,Potato merchants,who supply chip shops with quality frying potatoes throughout Manchester.

The farm is situated to the south west of Carrington Moss and the Red Rose Forest.Moss lane a busy link road passes through the farm and there is much unauthorised public access with it's associated problems.

Red Brook a tributary of the river Mersey, flows through the farm roughly east-west and allows for both irrigation and easily mannaged drainage systems.