Offers a retrospective look at farming life within living memory and beyond, celebrating a quintessential rural existence. This book is illustrated with old photographs, allowing a glimpse into the worlds of real people for whom farming was a way of life.

This book offers a retrospective look at farming life within living memory and beyond, celebrating a quintessential rural existence.It is warm and nostalgic but also honest about the hardships of life and the great changes the countryside has seen in the last 100 or so years.It is peppered with personal stories and recollections to give readers a real sense of the joys and tribulations of farming life.It is illustrated with a treasury of old photographs, some from unpublished collections, allowing a special glimpse into the worlds of real people for whom farming was a way of life.

Introduction
1 Setting the Scene
2 Farmers All
3 The Farmstead
4 Working the Land
5 The Harvest
6 Farmworkers
7 Horses and Horsemen
8 Working with Cattle
9 Sheep and Shepherds
10 Pigs, Poultry and Goats
11 Markets
12 Tailpiece
Acknowledgements and Picture Credits
Bibliography
Index.