A Bucket Of Nuts And A Herring Net: The Birth Of A Spare Time Farm

by John Jackson

Shelf worn dust jacket has a faded spine, a little foxing to the page edges. Orders received by 3pm Sent from the UK that weekday.

191 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

John Jackson, b. 1929, lawyer, publisher and author
John Jackson, South-African chef
John Jackson, 1853-1917
John Jackson, 1686-1763
John Jackson, d. 1855

Reviews

[Henri Moreaux · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Bucket Of Nuts And A Herring Net: The Birth Of A Spare Time Farm is a great memoir written by John Jackson of the Jackson family who, obviously accordingly to the title, went and bought a farm.

It covers the slow ramp up of their farming operations, their relations with village-folk, demolition and amateur building of structures amongst other things all told in a light and humourous fashion.

There's quite a few funny stories of wayward animals and overall is just a nice easy to read tale of one families tree-change into a farming and 'self efficiency' lifestyle.