Moonlighting herbal remedies unregulated farm life a treasure-house

unregulated farm life a treasure-house of memories

From his Shropshire farm

Bob Kennard explains the decline of this nutritious and lucrative commodity which once made men rich and kept them healthy

On the way

took a bit of getting used to but proved ultimately to be a liberating and unexpected experience

Moonlighting herbal remedies unregulated farm life a treasure-houseIn spring 1973, Michael Brown, a young freelance travel writer, took a phone call from a friend: 'Why don't you come down to Somerset and see these things called elvers they migrate up river at night on the high tides and the local's fish for them. It's called elvering.' And so began a lifetime's career, full of ups and downs, as a self employed eel fisherman: from the enchantment of catching them by moonlight, to driving them in battered vans across