One of P’s – I had never heard of the author (nor had she) who is younger than me, a farmer who also writes books about soldiers’s wartime experiences, but mainly about rural England.
He is not a fan of modern bio-chemical farming methods and this book covers a year in which he rented a field and tried (successfully) to grow wheat as it was in the past. The aim being as much to encourage bio-diversity, which he also does with great (temporary, over the year) success.
He also writes very well about the decline of wild flowers and animals resulting from modern farming methods and quotes people like John Clare and other rural writers from the past.
I found it surprisingly good; it is the follow up to a book called Meadowland which I should also read (but that looks a bit similar so I have just bought ‘The Wild Life: A year of living on Wild Food’ to take on holiday).
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