Sweet Home Hinton Ampner: The Tenant Farmer’s Diary from 2015

260pp, with a central section of plate illustrations and a map in text.  Laminated, illustrated stiff card covers.  8vo.  A little mild wear at the edges of the card covers else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.  

Charlie Flindt farms 920 acres of heavy land on the National Trust-owned Hinton Ampner estate in Hampshire.  In 2015 he decided that the time was right to record, in intricate detail, a year on a normal non-organic, non-rare breeds farm – the sort of farm that forms the vast majority of the English countryside and feeds an even higher proportion of the population.  The result is not just a comprehensive record of daily weather, farm activities, band rehearsals, medical matters, rural crime and, of course, Tuesday evenings at the Flowerpots pub, but also a farming diary like you have never read before.