BBC Countryfile Magazine

Adam Henson

Everyone knows how farming works. A wealthy landowner, normally an aristocrat or the local gentry, employs a farmer to tend his estate or, alternatively, rents land out to a number of tenant farmers. Right?

Well, not quite. While the traditional ways of the countryside still exist – and in most cases very successfully – the methods used to

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