The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape

by James Rebanks

It is a curious thing to slowly discover that your landscape is beloved of other people. It is even more curious, and a little unsettling, when you discover by stages that you as a native are not really part of the story and meaning they attach to that place. There are never any tourists here when

Reference Cascade Heights

Farming is more than the effect on the landscape: it sustains the local food industry, supports tourism, and gives people an income in places that might otherwise be abandoned.

Importance of farming

The next two-year cycle in the life of the farm plays out in our heads. I catch my father’s eye, and his look tells me he loves these things but that he knows he might never see them happen. It also says he knows this will all go on. I turn away to cry so he can’t see.

Beyond ones own life