A great guide in starting to live your dream

I brought Paul Heineys book ‘Home Farm’ a few years back. I had hoped on a few occasions to give a copy away as a prize in Forum Competitions, but the first edition sold out and copies were few and expensive to find, so I was delighted to see the second edition has now been released.

You can see from the picture that the front and back covers have now changed, but the content is the same and for my money, worth every penny.

At a first glance of the Chapters you may not think all the book relates to you, but it is set out to cater for every kind of ‘Farm’ and these can overlap a great deal. In the very first chapter Heiney goes through the various categories as he sees it…The Garden Farm, Small Home Farm, Medium Home Farm and Larger Farm, but you shouldn’t see it as because you have a smallish garden that the contents for the larger farm don’t matter.

With the well acclaimed setting out and great illustrations of Dorling and Kindersley, the book will give you great starting points on virtually all you need to know for making your garden a working garden. There are well detailed articles on livestock husbandry, vegetable / herb growing, where’s, when’s and wonderfully illustrated pages on chutney making, curing, jams, wine making and more. The only things that some may find irrelevant are Equine matters and more the Cereal growing sections, but who knows – reading what you want to know may well lead you on to greater dreams and reality!!

Richard Cannon – September 2010

About the Author….

Paul Heiney was born April 1949 in Sheffield. He began his broadcasting career as a current affairs presenter on BBC Radio Humberside.

This led him onto other things and in 1978 he joined Esther Rantzens ‘That’s Life’ Team on BBC Television, a programme which looked at all aspects of life, good and not so good.

In 1990 he brought himself a 36 acre Farm and recorded his exploits in a regular ‘Times’ feature. After 10 years (the length of time he and his wife Libby Purvis agreed), he went back into TV presenting a series called ‘A Victorian Summer’, in which he went back to basics on how we used to (and could do) tend the land around us.
This programme also offered him the chance of talking about one of his favourite subjects, Horses and how they’ve paid a major riole in our history and heritage.

More recently he has re-appeared yet again as the Presenter of ITV’s ‘Countrywise programme.

Basically, he’s a bit like a boomerang, he goes off somewhere, but always comes back!!