The book tracing the agrarian renaissance of the Feeding Body and Soul story is now available at a special discount for supporters of ‘unlikely heroes’.

You will have arrived at this page by following a link given by a small scale farmer or grower who values your support to the extent of enabling you to but the book, ‘Unlikely Heroes’, at a special discount price of £20 plus post and packaging. (For UK P&P is £5, please use the form below if outside the UK and I will quote). The book would normally retail at £25 plus P&P.

The book – entitled Unlikely Heroes to reflect the fact that everything depends on the people – documents over 70 visits to ‘small scale farmers and growers with a double page spread for each visit. In so doing traces the growing year across the various locations. In total there are over 150 pages of full colour images. Plus there is a Foreword from Colin Tudge, probably best known as founder of the Oxford Real Farming Conference but he is also a well-read author. His most recent book Six Steps Back to the Land is very much a call to arms for small-scale farming. Stephen Devlin from the New Economics Forum has also provided a very insightful essay specifically for the book on the wider economic issues around food production. In total, there is 160, A4 landscape pages, all carefully printed by the Dorset Press of Henry Ling Ltd. in Dorchester!

Just hit the ‘Buy Now’ button below to purchase. If you would prefer to pay by bank transfer or cheque, please use the order form at the bottom of the page and I will provide details to enable you to do it. .

The images from the book featured above are from Bedford Fields Forest Garden, Cross Green Growing Together, St Helen’s Farm/Organic Pantry and Swillington Organics – all in the Leeds area.  Front cover and copy of the book’s double page spread for Embercombe in Devon are below. Double click on any of the images to see in slideshow format which will go to full screen.