Land of Milk and Honey is the long-awaited sequel to Red Rag to a
Bull. Author Jamie Blackett finds himself in danger of losing the
family estate as his beef business encounters difficulties and the
spectre of Brexit bears down on the farming community. Meanwhile he
feels under threat from extreme environmentalists attacking the
very concept of livestock farming and by resurgent Scottish
nationalism threatening the break-up of the United Kingdom. The
book is the honest and forthright account of how he copes with the
crisis by following the example of New Zealand farmers in similar
circumstances and successfully embracing the new creed of
regenerative agriculture and switching the farm into pasture-based
dairying. Through Jamie’s struggles the reader comes to
understand the crossroads facing the British countryside as it
attempts to adapt to free trade after eighty years of agricultural
subsidies. We are also guided through the complexities and
contradictions in the quest to reach Net Zero carbon and reverse
biodiversity loss as he explores the current craze for re-wilding
the land and puts some of its ideas into practice for the benefit
of wildlife on the estate. Along the way Jamie becomes an outspoken
newspaper columnist and establishes an unlikely political alliance
with the maverick socialist George Galloway in an attempt to break
the stalemate in Scottish politics and defeat Nicola Sturgeon’s
SNP in the Holyrood election. The book contains humour, vivid
passages of nature writing and numerous polemical digressions on a
wide range of countryside issues.
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