It’s a farmer’s life

Farm to Fork: The Challenge of Sustainable Farming in 21st Century Britain

Joe Stanley (Quiller, £18.95)

IT is a sad fact that the average Briton is now several generations removed from the land and there is a constant need for farmers with a literary bent to write books explaining what we do and why we do it to an increasingly sceptical public. Perhaps never more so than now, when the (faux) green movement, quietly encouraged by Big Oil and Big Food, has planted the idea that we can cheerfully do away with British farming altogether, ‘rewild’ the land back to its primordial state and subsist on laboratory food washed down with almond ‘milk’.

‘Farms that supported three generations are now lucky to provide for one’

All this at a time when not sitting on a tractor on his family farm in Leicestershire with his two Jack Russell terriers, has done exactly that.