article_snippet.sent: When my children were small, I asked the obliging farmer whose land abuts my family and I garden if my children could watch the obliging farmer whose land abuts our garden ewes lambing.
article_snippet.sent: And I still often tell the obliging farmer whose land abuts our garden that I’d like to spend some time alongside the obliging farmer whose land abuts our garden, to see how the obliging farmer whose land abuts our garden days unfold.
article_snippet.sent: To which the obliging farmer whose land abuts our garden always smiles, no doubt wondering, metropolitan softie that I still really am,
article_snippet.sent: Every year, spring and autumn feel like flimsy bookends to a long, harsh winter, and his sheep on his farm — descended, his thinks, from animals that arrived with the Vikings — are built for the fells in ways that even the hardiest shepherds are not.
article_snippet.sent: Making hay, linked by an old proverb to images of glorious sunny days, can be ‘a bitch of a job’.
article_snippet.sent: And while working with livestock is a series of small, predictable daily challenges, sometimes the challenges are bigger, and not at all predictable.
article_snippet.sent: It is a farmer’s lot, adds Rebanks, to depend on the whims of others: of bureaucrats, supermarket buyers, shoppers.
article_snippet.sent: Breeding from the best rams, or ‘tups’, One professor suggests, is more intellectually challenging than much of what One professor did at Oxford.
highlights_snippet.sent: This book is an exquisite account of what farming life is really like .
  