I live and write on the land. I am just a humble herder and weaver of wool, in service to my caprine queens and benevolent sheep, and the land that holds and earths me. My place is in the fields and fens, the woods, wide open hills and wild places, barefoot and breathing hircine sweat and honeysuckle and bathing in the rain.
I write on our human connection to the land and nature, our place of belonging in the great web of all life. On farming, sovereignty, localisation, and the deep alignment of eating and living seasonally and from place, the food and fibre that are ultimately why we farm and what connect us all back to the land.
My words are my art. Sometimes I might rant political, and sometimes I may wax poetic on the meaning of it all. Always from my heart, imperfect, whole and human.
Free subscribers get a fortnightly essay on our human connection to the land, farming, and nature.
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My writing supports my farm and flock, and my livelihood. Subscribers will be first to know when I relaunch my Etsy shop with handwoven and felted wool rugs and traditionally bark tanned skins from my beautiful, colourful, fibre flock of Shetland and Mayo-Connemara blackface sheep and dairy goats. You will be notified with a preview of what’s coming before it goes live on Etsy.
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