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Highland Homespun

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Margaret Leigh takes readers to a West Highlands farm year, revealing farming life’s quiet, poignant rhythms.

In May 1933 Margaret Leigh took over the tenancy of Achnabo farm, in a beautiful corner of the West Highlands overlooking the isle of Skye.

In this unsentimental yet exquisitely written book, she recounts a year of farming life there, from the burning of the land and ploughing in March, through planting and sowing in April to haymaking and harvesting in September. Incidental details –...