Land of Milk and Honey is the long-awaited sequel to Red Rag to a Bull.
Author Jamie Blackett finds himself in danger of losing the family
estate as his beef business encounters difficulties and the spectre of
Brexit bears down on the farming community. Meanwhile he feels under
threat from extreme environmentalists attacking the very concept of
livestock farming and by resurgent Scottish nationalism threatening the
break-up of the United Kingdom. The book is the honest and forthright
account of how he copes with the crisis by following the example of New
Zealand farmers in similar circumstances and successfully embracing the
new creed of regenerative agriculture and switching the farm into
pasture-based dairying. Through Jamie's struggles the reader comes to
understand the crossroads facing the British countryside as it attempts
to adapt to free trade after eighty years of agricultural subsidies. We
are also guided through the complexities and contradictions in the quest
to reach Net Zero carbon and reverse biodiversity loss as he explores
the current craze for re-wilding the land and puts some of its ideas
into practice for the benefit of wildlife on the estate.
