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The Farmer, The Plough & The Devil	£5.00
by Hollins, Arthur

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	Reference	S5574
	Publisher	Shrewsbury, Ellingham Press
	Year	2006
	ISBN	0954756037
	Condition	VG+/-- (?)

The total with shipping for this book within the UK would be £7.52.

Reprint paperback in clean crisp condition, 257 pages, brief dedication on title page, no other marks, bright and tight inside.

This is the story of Fordhall Farm in Shropshire, a pioneer of organic farming.  It commences around the period of the First World War and traces the fortunes of the Hollins family during sixty years -  its decline under the management of the author's father and its resurgence through organic farming.

Alfred Hollins grew rich producing potatoes in WWI, but frittered his money, and ruined his soil with the indiscriminate use of fertiliser.  Arthur Hollins inherited the farm in his teens with the odds stacked against him.

With his wife May he gradually overcame the deficiencies of the soil and a resistant bureaucracy , and eventually established a pioneering yoghurt business.  Arthur was then able to develop his Pulvoseeder, a machine he believes can transform the cultivation of the land.

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