Books

[thesilentone]

Well written and makes you think. A very close connection between the food we eat, and the cost of the NHS.

Grass-Fed Nation: Getting Back the Food We Deserve eBook : Harvey, Graham: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Grass-Fed Nation: Getting Back the Food We Deserve eBook : Harvey, Graham: Amazon.co.uk: Books

www.amazon.co.uk

Good old fashioned basics:

The Farming Ladder eBook : Henderson, G.: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

The Farming Ladder eBook : Henderson, G.: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

www.amazon.co.uk

 

[Crofter64]

Well written and makes you think. A very close connection between the food we eat, and the cost of the NHS.

Grass-Fed Nation: Getting Back the Food We Deserve eBook : Harvey, Graham: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Grass-Fed Nation: Getting Back the Food We Deserve eBook : Harvey, Graham: Amazon.co.uk: Books

www.amazon.co.uk

Good old fashioned basics:

The Farming Ladder eBook : Henderson, G.: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

The Farming Ladder eBook : Henderson, G.: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

www.amazon.co.uk

I loved The Farming Ladder . George Henderson has such a positive, confident attitude and so much energy. His description of his annual walking holiday in Scotland is intense. Some of us just like to have long naps while on holiday!

 

[Suffolk Serf]

I loved The Farming Ladder . George Henderson has such a positive, confident attitude and so much energy. His description of his annual walking holiday in Scotland is intense. Some of us just like to have long naps while on holiday!

Yes one of the greatest farming books ever imho. In the edition that I have there is a forward by another farming hero, John Cherrington, who says what he thought of the author until he actually met him, when his opinion changed to be totally positive. Something that I always take with me through life.

 

[Crofter64]

Yes one of the greatest farming books ever imho. In the edition that I have there is a forward by another farming hero, John Cherrington, who says what he thought of the author until he actually met him, when his opinion changed to be totally positive. Something that I always take with me through life.

Well written and makes you think. A very close connection between the food we eat, and the cost of the NHS.

Grass-Fed Nation: Getting Back the Food We Deserve eBook : Harvey, Graham: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Grass-Fed Nation: Getting Back the Food We Deserve eBook : Harvey, Graham: Amazon.co.uk: Books

www.amazon.co.uk

Good old fashioned basics:

The Farming Ladder eBook : Henderson, G.: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

The Farming Ladder eBook : Henderson, G.: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

www.amazon.co.uk

A little glimpse into George Henderson’s world and its message:

On Your Farm - George Henderson and The Farming Ladder - George Henderson and The Farming Ladder - BBC Sounds

The story of George Henderson, the farmer who inspired WWII soldiers to take up farming.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[The Ruminant]

Humphrey Phelps - Just Across the Fields, Just Around the Corner and Just Over Yonder. Reminiscences from his life in farming from 1942. Great reads, all of them, with plenty of humour and some very colourful characters.

Totally different are 3 books by Rich P. Hobson: Grass Beyond the Mountains, Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy and The Rancher Takes a Wife. Reminiscences again, this time of the author's life cattle ranching in central British Columbia from the 1930's. The experiences and hardships those guys went through are humbling and almost beyond belief.

Then there's Mona Anderson's classic A River Rules My Life - running a high-country sheep station in South Island, New Zealand, from 1940. Short film on it here:

Crusoe of Lonesome Lake tells of Ralph Edwards' determination to carve a little farm out of the wilderness in B.C., Canada . Pioneering stuff. His son showed me round the old homestead when I was camping and canoeing round there in the Eighties, everything still there then, but it was totally destroyed recently in a forest fire, so all gone now. Good little film about it here:

You might think I'm heavily into nostalgia, and you'd be right. But not through rose-tinted spectacles. -3°C is low enough for me, not -54°. But I love these stories - each one takes you out of the present and into a different world, where they had some values we could do with today and a pace of life that I certainly envy.

Bought the three Rich Hobson books, I’ve already read two of them and am about to start the third! Really, really enjoyed them! Thanks for the recommendation (duplicate recommendation from @Blaithin too!)

 

[Macsky]

Has anyone read the call of the Reed warbler?

Absolute snooze fest of a book

 

[whitefox]

Forgot Brewis. He put me off sheep keeping for 40 years!!!!

Brewis had sheep sussed early in the play,with a natural comic observation he realised that they also had a ....natural tendency to be ..... vindictive barstewards,had me in tears of laughter when he accurately described many situations when they had ,simply reduced to me to tears of despair!!

 

[Blaithin]

Bought the three Rich Hobson books, I’ve already read two of them and am about to start the third! Really, really enjoyed them! Thanks for the recommendation (duplicate recommendation from @Blaithin too!)

There’s a tv series for Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy. Loved it as a kid. Hard to find these days but somebody said it’s on YouTube.

 

[Christoph1945]

If you like your cows: The secret life of cows by Rosamund Young.

A daughter of one of our neighbors has been doing some Volentry milking and tells some really interesting and funny stories about the behaviors of milk cows.

So, when I saw a copy of The Secret Life of Cows I snapped it up and found it to be both interesting and entertaining; the darned book made me smile frequently and even laugh out loud occasionally.

I am presently wondering if the girl would prefer to be called a 'milk maid' or a 'cowgirl'!

 

[Christoph1945]

£11.49 on ebay.

£684 on Amazon right now...

Why do people put these silly price tags on stuff - do they actually get buyers? Weird.

Look up 'Bibliophile'; plenty of books at reasonable prices in there!

 

[Jasper]

When village bells were silent . Fred archer nice easy read about farming during ww2

 

[Red Fred]

Oliver Rackham's History of the Countryside is a good read if you are historically inclined.

 

[delilah]

Recently read I am an Island by Tamsin Calidas, finds herself working a croft very much on her own. At times its quite harrowing, wondered if anyone on here knows the situation first hand ? Artistic licence or was she really given such a hard time ?

 

[Bury the Trash]

 

[essexpete]

Not strictly farming but early 20th Century rural life: The Only Way Was Essex by Spike Mays.

 

[Bury the Trash]

arent books brilliant

 

[L P]

One Straw Revolution, get the impression the first half was written whilst learning, the second half was less humble and more "greatness" fascinating for some of his findings. The one in the picture belonged to my grandfather and although heavy going, equally fascinating being back to the bygone era... what we think we know now gives decades of disrespect for what our previous generations had learned and we forgot!

 

[yellowbelly]

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Bought a new TSR 108 in 1970 something and that Ransome's Good Ploughing book came with it.

Some damned good pictures of some damned good ploughing in there
Must dig it out and have a look at it again.

 

[Christoph1945]

Some great price reductions on books at the book company 'Bibliophile' and if you fancy some free, downloadable, books, try 'Project Gutenbeg' on the internet.

 

[whitefox]

a book i have been seeking for a while, is an australian publication, "To dam or be damned" by a texan called Jack Fletcher,about his attempts to control the Fitsroy river,in the Kimberley region of western australia,anyone heard of or seen a copy?