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Bella Bathurst who lives in a cottage on 180-acre Rise Farm in Wales, has penned a book about farmers. Author says she has 'never met a group of people who worked harder' than farmers.
In Field Work : What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land, Bella Bathurst identifies a series of painful truths about Britainâs relationship with its land. This is a country whose self-identity is closely bound up with its agriculture, and yet farmers have, over the course of a generation, become âthe sort of profession which everyone disrespected without really understandingâ. Farmers are responsible, so the narrative of several books goes â see Mark Cockerâs Feral, for instance â for genocidal cruelty to the animals they process, and for the destructi...
Jamie Blackett In her new book Field Work, Bella Bathurst captures life in a fast-changing industry with uncomfortable accuracy 5/5 The author The Shepherd's Life returns with this wonderful tale of how farming has changed for his family in Cumbria over three generations Advertisement Advertisement We've noticed you're adblocking. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism. We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. Thank you for your support. Need help? Close
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