Where are the Fellows who Cut the Hay?
By Robert Ashton
The story of how almost forgotten trades and ways are being rediscovered in rural Britain today.

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Optimistic yet realistic, Robert Ashton's Where are the Fellows Who Cut the Hay? is a thoughtful exploration of rural life in the twenty-first century, and how the new generation is finding value in traditional country trades and ways.
Robert Ashton grew up in Suffolk and spent his teenage years working on farms. After agricultural college he married a farmer’s daughter and for ten years worked in sales and marketing for a fertiliser company. While his career has taken him in different directions, it is farming that has remained his consistent interest.
In Where are the Fellows Who Cut the Hay? Robert takes inspiration from oral historian George Ewart Evans's collection of stories from people who remembered how life was in rural Suffolk before the First World War. Robert explores those stories and meets people who today are bringing back past techniques and approaches to care for the countryside.
The new generation are leading this change of direction. Robert finds that the looming climate crisis, recent pandemic, growing dissatisfaction with the rat-race, and rocketing energy costs are driving people toward ways that are ethical, sustainable, natural, and above all, kinder to the world.
In this book, Robert weaves their stories and his personal narrative together to share how farming practices have changed over the years, and how - against all odds - we urgently need to go backwards in order to progress.
Image credits: Illustration by John Richardson. Book cover and assets designed by Mecob.
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