Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution

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Farmers can offer the solutions rather than being the problem because farming is about so much more than food.

Rooted by Sarah Langford | Waterstones

Forget Me Not– Sophia Pavelle: Someone much younger than me wrote a book about rewilding – and by all accounts it’s really good (this makes me feel like perhaps I’m being left behind! A beautifully written, incredibly timely book addressing not just where our food comes from and why this matters so much, but also fundamental questions relating to our relationship with the land, and the definition of home.We follow Langford as she unexpectedly finds herself managing her husband’s family’s arable farm in Suffolk. In her memoir, Unearthed: On Race and Roots and How the Soil Taught Me I Belong, Claire Ratinon, explores how she grew up feeling disconnected with the natural world and with family stories of slave ancestors forced to work the land. The fact that every single thing is connected, even if you can’t see the connection and that your actions will have a consequence, whether it’s intended or not. The author and her husband conclude that organic farming is the niche to explore for them not just because it seems the only way small, non-agribusiness farming can be financially viable but it is the path farmers need to follow after years of being pushed to produce more and more food via chemicals and farming methods alien to their ancestors. A helpful and interesting guide to the role of keystone species which form the basis of the UK’s biodiversity and the benefits they have for humans.

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But when she found herself moving to the countryside, back to an agricultural life she had left behind, she saw farmers dealing with very different problems to those faced by her grandfather, who had fed a starving nation after war. George Monbiot’s Regenesis takes as its subject no less than the entire world’s food production system and dares to imagine a world largely free of farming as we have known it. This book is sharing a very important environmental message about biodiversity, our soils, and food production. We celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories, traditions and living cultures; and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. The acclaimed TV forager and adventurer brings British woodlands to life in this romp through the native trees of our green and pleasant land.With remarkable candour, Sarah describes eleven cases which reveal what goes on in our criminal and family courts: these are tales of domestic fall out, everyday burglary, sexual indiscretion, and children caught up in the law. English Pastoral– James Rebanks: I’ve been ploughing through this incredible, moving and poetic book for a year now – I find it hard to read as it inspires so many different ideas. Rooted is a brave thing: a book that prods into the ever-widening gulf between the binaries we increasingly use to examine the world. As conversations about what we eat and where it comes from reach fever-pitch, Sarah Langford's clear-eyed, inquisitive and passionate plea for farmers and farming offers a vital understanding when it has never been so needed.