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The Land That Made Us - The Peak District farmer's story (Paperback)
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The Land That Made Us - The Peak District farmer's story (Paperback)
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Loot Price R437
Discovery Miles 4 370
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The South West Peak is a lesser-known part of the Peak District
stretching from Lyme Park in Cheshire in the north to Onecote in
Staffordshire in the south, and from Macclesfield in the west to
Buxton in the east. This landscape area includes tracts of high
moorland, fertile valleys, wooded cloughs, picturesque villages and
tiny hamlets. The farmers of the South West Peak are the people who
have made the landscape what it is today, and it is their personal
accounts of working in this often challenging land that form the
basis of The Land That Made Us. Edited by local author Christine
Gregory and dairy farmer Sheila Hine, and published in partnership
with the Farming Life Centre and the Peak District National Park
Authority with support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund,
this book includes the testimony of over twenty farmers, and it is
illustrated with photographs of them and their farming landscapes.
We hear stories from across the generations of heroic endeavour in
difficult terrain, as well as accounts of day-to-day work and
family life spanning eighty years of farming history. The land had
been farmed in traditional ways for centuries, but the Second World
War changed that, and in succeeding years politics and increasing
mechanisation have constantly rewritten the rule book for farmers.
There is pride in achievement as well as frustration at the often
conflicting demands of food production and wildlife conservation.
The Land That Made Us asks what makes for sustainability in the
short and the long term. The future of this landscape and of the
farming communities that sustain it hangs in the balance, and it is
the farmers' turn to reflect on their past and speculate about the
future.
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