Scenes from a Smallholding

Scenes from a Smallholding

by Chas Griffin (Author)

Synopsis

In 1982 the Griffins left the security of suburbia to grow garlic in West Wales. This is a funny and sometimes touching, warts-and-all account of their first three years: of how they learned lambing and marketing and ploughing and hay-making: and of the dung-sodden joys of milking and the surreal terrors of bee-keeping. Be amused. Be very amused. Scenes from a Smallholding is by turns challenging, touching, and informative; but above all, it is very funny.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Ebury Press
Published: 05 May 2005

ISBN 10: 0091905079
ISBN 13: 9780091905071
Book Overview: Not completely devoid of handy hints, but essentially a personal memoir, written for fun, of how Chas Griffin and his family set up and tried to run an organic smallholding, starting from scratch

Media Reviews
I was laughing out loud before I'd got past the copyright page. The book is a gem and Chas is a star in the making. The sort of author Richard & Judy was made for -- Scott Pack * Bookbuyer *
... a Bill Bryson down on the farm ... -- Alan Gear * HDRA *
Author Bio
Chas Griffin was a college lecturer, living in a leafy Nottingham suburb, when he decided to move with his family to a farm in West Wales.