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1. frereu+jb[view] [source] 2021-05-16 11:23:18
>>banana+(OP)
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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2. nkurz+Ek[view] [source] 2021-05-16 13:10:54
>>frereu+jb
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?

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3. railto+po[view] [source] 2021-05-16 13:51:58
>>nkurz+Ek
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

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