. As I stood on a balcony looking down I marvelled at the simple ingenuity of what was before me. A lorry laden with carrots from the field entered at one end of the line. They were washed in chilled water to start the chilling process, topped, tailed, washed again, chilled and bagged ready to exit on another lorry to be distributed across the country usually via supermarket hubs. All this happened in minutes rather than hours from entry to exit. It is hard to believe that a

Several weeks ago I finished reading Rory Stewart’s book Middleland, here I compare some of his writing and thoughts and opinions and compare them to my own writing, thoughts and opinions. “Such remoteness is not necessarily physical remoteness, but rather social, economic and temporal remoteness.” – these are my words when writing about urban bias in my book Marsh Fen and Town- South Lincolnshire and Beyond. To this I would add cultural remoteness and I guess Rory Stewart wo

Allotments have a variety of forms and uses. They are important today as they were in the past. The purpose of them and their function may have changed, but as fiscal pressures become greater they may become even more significant to people by reverting to their original purpose: To enable those not receiving enough renumeration from their labours to support themselves and their families.

As we saw the success of Amazon Prime's new TV series "Clarkson's Farm" showing the reality of farming in the UK it reminded of a man...