Traditional Farming Year, The (Hardback) - Paul Heiney

For ten years broadcaster Paul Heiney  ran his own Suffolk farm with horse rather than tractor. In this book  Paul draws on his experience in order to describe month-by-month a  farming year that our great-grandparents might have recognized.

Paul shows that in traditional farming  the farmer strikes a balance with nature and gives back to the land  what he takes away. Detailing the work of the farm’s key players -  farmer, farmer’s wife, horseman, dairyman, shepherd, labourer and  farmer’s boy - he considers who took centre stage at various  junctures of the farming year, in a way familiar to viewers of his  Victorian Farming television series.

The book includes many 1940s and 50s  photographs from the archives of ‘Farmer and Stockbreeder’  magazine