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This is the Twitter account for a shepherd on Twitter whose flock is made up of Herdwicks: https://twitter.com/herdyshepherd1 https://twitter.com/herdyshepherd1
by frereubu 5y ago
This is the Twitter account for a shepherd on Twitter whose flock is made up of Herdwicks: https://twitter.com/herdyshepherd1 https://twitter.com/herdyshepherd1 Every time I visit his timeline I end up in a farming Twitter scroll trance.
- nkurz 5y agoFor those looking for a longer form than Twitter, his first book is great: The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape (https://www.amazon.com/Shepherds-Life-Dispatches-Ancient-Landscape/dp/1250060265 https://www.amazon.com/Shepherds-Life-Dispatches-Ancient-Lan...). Rebanks also has a new one out last year, but I haven't read it yet: English Pastoral (https://www.amazon.com/English-Pastoral/dp/0241245729 https://www.amazon.com/English-Pastoral/dp/0241245729). Anyone have opinions?
- railton 5y agoI've read both and think English Pastoral is marginally better. Less sheep, more general farming stuff and stronger narrative of old-school farming with his grandfather to modern industrialised then to present where he's doing more regenerative agriculture. You can get a signed copy from his local Lake District bookshop btw: https://www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/EnglishPastoral/2244 https://www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/EnglishPastoral/2244