This Farming Life

Download or read book This Farming Life written by Tim Saunders and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farmer Tim Saunders manages to incorporate some writing into his days, and here he describes his life through the seasons: Summer, shearing, slaughter, crop harvest, conservation; Autumn, floods, trading stock, drenching, dagging; Winter, maize harvest, lambing; and Spring, docking, pet sheep, weaning. It's a tough life and through his powerful, poignant writing Tim tells of his connection to the land, why he loves farming, how he's also conflicted by it and what it is that keeps him tethered to that place