John Seymour’s ‘The Lore of the Land’
by Angus, 25 October, 2012, 4 comments
Have you ever wanted to know how to stop fence posts rotting, how to choose which trees to plant, or how to build a pond so that it holds water? This guidebook, originally written in the early 1980s, is packed with tips and explanations based on John Seymour’s own experience of improving his wooded smallholding in Pembrokeshire. Lazy readers like me can follow the explanations through the drawings that Seymour’s wife, Sally, has scattered through the book. But it’s not just a guide on how to manage woodlands and improve a smallholding – it’s also a whole philosophy of life…….
“The reason”, says Seymour, “why our land is so desperately badly husbanded now is that it is held in too large units.” Read more...
