John Lewis-Stempel
2009, hardback, 304 pages

Walking around his Herefordshire farm one October, John Lewis-Stempel saw a trout in the brook, mushrooms in the fields and a squirrel eating hazelnuts, and thought, wouldn't it be wonderful if you could live just on what nature provided for free.

This book is John's account of twelve months eating only food shot, caught or foraged from the fields, hedges, copse and brook of his forty acre farm.  Nothing from a shop and nothing raised from agriculture.  Could it be done?

The author takes the reader on a journey through a landscape that is true England as he uncovers the ancient past of his five hundred year old farm and the startling symmetries between his life now and that of the farm's peasant founders.