Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution

"I found it refreshing to read a book about regenerative agriculture by an outsider and a woman. Langford does have farming in her background but her early professional life was in criminal and family law. She wrote In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law about her time as a criminal barrister in London. She brings the same critical approach to farming life when she finds herself in the countryside running a farm alongside her husband. In one scene, she describes how she had read up on the science of agroforestry and tries to share her enthusiasm with a conventional agronomist only to feel dismissed and ridiculous for bringing up ‘kooky’ ideas. I know that feeling. Farming can be a closed world and I am grateful for her for suggesting, quietly and powerfully, that there could be another way."