Time for a soil resurrection

SHORTLY before Easter, we saw the countryside in all its complexities.

'London is too far from the land easily to understand the crisis we are in'

There had at last been two days without rain, so a neighbouring farmer was struggling to get sugar beet out of the ground, although the soil was hardly dry enough to take the machinery. Weeks late, it was a last desperate attempt where others had given up and left their beet and potatoes to rot. Up in London, other farmers were driving their tractors to Parliament to protest about the Government's failure to take food security seriously. The lumbering vehicles held up traffic and got the attention of some of the media, but found little sympathy in Westminster, caught as it is in apost-Brexit dream world.