Our Wild Farming Life: Adventures on a Scottish Highland Croft by Lynn Cassells and Sandra Baer

Two women with no farming experience, one from Northern Ireland and one of Swiss and Scottish heritage, apprentice as Rangers for the National Trust. As a couple, they buy Lynbreck Croft in the Scottish Highlands, with gorgeous, hilly views. At first, they live on the croft and commute to work, but really want to live and work on their 150 acres of land. They plant many, many trees, and acquire some native breeds of chickens, pigs, cattle, bees, and briefly, sheep. Sandra and Lynn plant a large kitchen garden, and apply for grants and loans. It sounds like extremely hard work in a very scenic setting. Selling farm produce shares and later offering farm tours and classes and appearing on the 3^rd season of BBC2’s This Farming Life, along with sales of this book, help make their vision a reality. It’s still just the pair of them, continuing the hard work of living close to their land. Inspiring, this was a quick, memorable read