The Cuckoo Calls the Year Scottish Natural Heritage From his Shropshire farm

From his Shropshire farm

this book covers everything from traditional to ultra-modern techniques

historians and gardeners will welcome this restoration and sensitive highlighting of Parkinson’s huge lost classic

Peter Klein unfolds the full story of Robert Foulkes for the first time

The Cuckoo Calls the Year Scottish Natural Heritage From his Shropshire farmAfter working as a botanist and natural historian for more than 25 years, walking the countryside had almost imperceptibly turned into a disheartening endeavour for Pete Stroh. He found himself resting at viewpoints and contemplating how much better it would be if a pasture had not been drenched with herbicide, if a woodland had not been planted up with regimented lines of conifer crops, if an arable field could every so often not be ploughed right up