Re:Herdwicks: The 'smiley' sheep that shaped the Lake District
by frereubu on Sunday May 16, 2021 @07:23AM
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This is the Twitter account for a shepherd on Twitter whose flock is made up of Herdwicks: https://twitter.com/herdyshepherd1 Every time I visit his timeline I end up in a farming Twitter scroll trance.
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Re:Herdwicks: The 'smiley' sheep that shaped the Lake District
by nkurz on Sunday May 16, 2021 @09:10AM
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For those looking for a longer form than Twitter, his first book is great: The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape (https://www.amazon.com/Shepherds-Life-Dispatches-Ancient-Lan...).
Rebanks also has a new one out last year, but I haven't read it yet: English Pastoral (https://www.amazon.com/English-Pastoral/dp/0241245729). Anyone have opinions?
Re:Herdwicks: The 'smiley' sheep that shaped the Lake District
by railton on Sunday May 16, 2021 @09:51AM
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I've read both and think English Pastoral is marginally better.
Less sheep, more general farming stuff and stronger narrative of old-school farming with his grandfather to modern industrialised then to present where he's doing more regenerative agriculture.
You can get a signed copy from his local Lake District bookshop btw: https://www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/EnglishPastoral/2244