Second Crop: Reflections from a Farmer's Diary - Hardcover

Heiney, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0854932356 ISBN 13: 9780854932351

Publisher: H F & G Witherby, London, 1993

Synopsis

In 1990 journalist and broadcaster Paul Heiney decided to turn back the clock and realize a dream - to become a small farmer working a traditional mixed farm, using horses instead of tractors. Glorious though the dream was, reality has often proved very different. Heiney has shared his experience with readers of "The Times", in a series of weekly progress reports, and this book continues from where the first collection of these pieces, "Farming Times", left off. It resumes the story of his three cart-horses and Alice the sow, and introduces new personalities such as Sage the cow. As ever, the yearly farming cycle is a soap opera of rebellious antique machinery, unforgiving weeds and truculent livestock. Despite his stubborn advocacy of the Golden Age of Agriculture, Heiney is nevertheless a distinctively contemporary voice who finds a place in his pastoral idyll for Madonna, "Viz" and "The Silence of the Lambs", and wryly observes the laxative effects of different radio stations on his horses.

Edition details

• Publisher: H F & G Witherby, London
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0854932356
• ISBN 13: 9780854932351
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176
• Illustrator: Wright Joseph