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A beautiful book about farming history in the Peak District, by local writers and photographers Christine Gregory and Sheila Hine.\"\"<\/p>\n

The Land That Made Us: The Peak District Farmer\u2019s Story<\/strong> tells the tale of 80 years of farming in the South-West Peak \u2013 the area extending from Lyme Park in the north, to Onecote in the south, and from Macclesfield in the west, to Buxton in the east.<\/p>\n

Sheila Hine and Christine Gregory have collected stories told by local farmers and land managers who have lived and worked in this landscape for generations.<\/p>\n

The book includes tales of labouring in harsh winter weather in difficult terrain as well as memories of close communities where neighbours looked out for one another. People recount the challenges of working with changes in farming policies, the transition to new technologies, and speculate what the future may hold for their way of life in the South West Peak.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the book launch at Heaton House Farm, Rushton Spencer on October 10 2019, Sheila Hine said: \u201cWe wanted to show how and why farming has changed and developed in this beautiful but often hard upland area and to show the hardship and difficulties as well as successes. We hope this book will help to foster an understanding and also be a record in time. It wouldn\u2019t have been possible without the participation of our interviewees for which we thank them very much. It was often difficult for farmers to take time out so that we could actually do the interviews!\u201d<\/p>\n

Christine Gregory said: \u201cIt was a challenge to find a way through hundreds of thousands of words in the transcripts of something like 70 hours of interviews with over 30 farmers and land managers. Many of our interviewees articulated in moving ways, personal accounts of their own farming and family histories and together they present a unique insight into changes to our landscapes, wildlife and food production.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe book is structured chronically and begins in the Second World War with memories of farming with horses and the government drive to dig for victory. What follows decade by decade are accounts of early days inside the Common Market, then the European Union and the impacts this has had first with<\/p>\n

Our wonderful book is available to buy.\u00a0 We can post it out to you at no extra cost for just \u00a316.99. copy.<\/p>\n

\u2018[An] excellent history of modern farming \u2013 the best I have come across precisely because the words are those of the farmers themselves and their families, who have lived through and are still living through its transformation.\u2019<\/em> \u2013from the Foreword by Colin Tudge, co-founder of the Oxford Real Farming Conference and the College for Real Farming and Food Culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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