Pigs In Clover

Product Description

As of this moment in time nobody has died nobody has given birth & nobody has escaped. All 57 pigs 18 sheep 46 chickens two ducks two geese (the terrorists of the chicken field) two wild cats two horses four goslings two goats & a one-eyed sheepdog. All where they should be. But it wasn't always like this.. ." This is the true story of a Londoner who gives up his job as an estate agent in the city moves to the wilds of Exmoor starts a smallholding & becomes self-sufficient with a few bumps along the way. Simon's journey from urbanite to self-sufficient smallholder is brimming with incidents
- some funny & some tragic
- leading him to question Mother Nature himself the food he eats & his role in it all. Which makes the transition from city life to self-sufficient smallholder slow emotional & for him often confusing but it is also beautiful warming & laugh-out-loud funny. So if you would like to spend time with an accidental smallholder who completely changed one drunken night in Devon then join Simon his wife & their extended family as they learn the truth of what it takes to live a self-sufficient life before eventually becoming as happy as the proverbial pigs in clover."