Product Description

'Before you can manke your first recipe from home grown ingredients you will need to buy a field' As if passing her knowledge and wisdom, as well as her personal beliefs down through the generations Rosamund Young has brought together a lyrical narrative charting the long, hard ut realistic journey towards self-sufficiency making this a delicious collection of ancedotes, country knowledge and recipes as well as plenty of her own thoughts, told beautifully and lovingly by one of the UK's most passionate advocates of the self-sufficient, organic lifestyle.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #77727 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

About the Author
Together with her mother and brother Rosamund farms at Kites Nest Farm. They are widely acknowledged to be at the forefront of the organic movement. The farm has been described as one of the most self-sufficient in the country. Rosamund's first book, The Secret Life of Cows, received ecstatic reviews worldwide and is considered a leading text on animal sentience.

Customer Reviews

A missed opportunity
The blurb promised so much but I found this almost unreadable as it written not in the first person, but as if you, the reader, are reminiscing personally about your own life. It is virtually like putting words into the reader's mouth and as I disgreed with some of the author's philosophies I found this really began to grate. I agree with the other reviewer that one expects more of 'manual' - that's certainly what you would think from reading the publishers' website. The author has obviously has an interesting and inspiring life but has really missed an opportunity to produce an good book about it.

One woman's memoirs of life living off the land
A very interesting read but not full of the practical know-how which I was expecting. The author came across as being very bitter about her life and the 'story' seemed to jump around quite a bit. Not really something you can dip into for advice every now and then.

In response to the above
Sorry the above felt like this, we, as publishers, felt that the synopsis more than explained that this was not a step by step guide to being self-sufficient but more ancedotal and tongue-in-cheek - the opposite to all the rose tinted glasses stuff about living the good life. Anybody who has read Rosamund's other book, The Secret Life of Cows, will know her to be passionate about what she does and anything but bitter.