Farm, Smallholding and Wildlife Book Reviews
We read. Obsessively. About farming, nature, sustainability and ideas. And we talk about them here.
Andy Brennan, Uncultivated taste and getting out of the way of good taste
Andy Brennan’s Uncultivated is like slow food. But cantankerous, slightly drunk and on steroids.
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Messy by nature
There are farms with lines of white stones that pick out the borders of perfectly crisp lawns. Striped. Formal and formed. There are farms with trim hedges that behave themselves. Rectangular boxes of clean green lines that picture frame their fields. There are farms with fields of ryegrass and clover, uncluttered by wildflowers or weeds. […]
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Autumn lamb, beginnings and endings and the cyclical poetry of farming
That moment when the end of things and the beginning of things melts and merges into each other. That’s Autumn. The bushes once bending under the weight of raspberries and rain are now bare. The last of the potatoes lifted. Cooked. Mashed. Served with glistening dark mutton stews. The blackberries are long gone. The sloes […]
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