Country Life

The new harvest

ARVEST is all done and dusted in most of the east of England and much of the rest of the country is not far behind. Many fields were cut before the end of July; this early timing is almost unprecedented. When Robert Hawker, the revolutionary vicar of Morwenstow in Cornwall, initiated the first Harvest Thanksgiving in 1843, it naturally took place on

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