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1 week ago | 
fivebooks.com | Noo Saro-Wiwa |Clare Hammond |Tom Chesshyre |James Rebanks
Thank you for joining us to discuss the 2025 Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year, and the five finalists. How did the judging process work? There were five of us judges. Stanfords put together the shortlist, then we read the six books over a couple of months before coming together to discuss them. Each of us spoke about each book, what we liked, what we didn’t. Then we tried to persuade each other, make the case for the book we thought should win.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
pennypost.org.uk | James Rebanks |Brian Quinn
A consultation has started on proposals which will affect some of the services West Berkshire Council provides next year. Residents are invited to read more about these plans and comment on them. “With limited funding,” the Council’s statement explains, “there are difficult decisions to consider with balancing the council’s budget for 2025/26.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
unherd.com | James Rebanks
AgricultureBritainFarmingPoliticsUK I was a teenager when I began to ask my dad difficult questions about our small farm. Questions about whether we made a profit, and if so, what paid best. The sheep? The cattle? The barley or oats we grew? He looked at me strangely and told me never to cost anything like a âbusinessmanâ, because it would only tell me that being a farmer was a terrible idea, and that we basically worked for nothing.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
ft.com | James Rebanks
It’s hard to say where the “north” begins and ends.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Peter Stanford |James Rebanks
Rebanks left school at 16 with just two GCSEs, but went on to get his A-levels and land a place at the University of Oxford Guzelian It has been a hectic few months for farmer and author James Rebanks, what with his family’s farm in the Lake District to tend, as well as a much-anticipated new book, the follow up to his prize-winning best-sellers The Shepherd’s Life and English Pastoral. To add to the pressure, over the summer he received an invitation from the new government asking him to sit...
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
farmersguardian.com | James Rebanks
Cumbrian sheep farmer and author James Rebanks has turned down the invitation to be a non-executive director for Defra. By James Rebanks "[I am] grateful to be asked, and that anyone there thinks I might be as asset. But as I said in my reply, I can't be complicit in the breaking of promises to farmers that I strong believe ought to be kept. "As I tweeted last week, there is a shifting away from big commitments that I find deeply problematic. The level of budget declining.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
unherd.com | James Rebanks
British farmingDefraFarmingFarming New DealKeir StarmerKeir StarmerLabour PartyLabour PartyPoliticsPoliticsUKUK Aujourd’hui, nous avons tondu nos moutons sous un ciel rempli de nuages gris. Nous avons passé des heures à diriger les moutons jusqu’à la rampe pour aider les hommes sur la remorque.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
unherd.com | James Rebanks
British farmingDefraFarmingFarming New DealKeir StarmerLabour PartyPoliticsUK We sheared our sheep today, beneath a sky full of gloomy grey clouds. There were hours of chasing sheep up the ramp to the men on the trailer.
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May 21, 2024 | 
plough.com | James Rebanks |Helen Rebanks |Peter Mommsen |Susannah Black Roberts
James and Helen Rebanks talk about raising sheep and cattle in the Lake District. James describes the landscape where their families have lived for six hundred years, and how they have begun practicing regenerative agriculture as a way of restoring the land that recent conventional agriculture had damaged. He gives details about the sheep and cattle herds and the grazing systems they’ve established.
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
thetimes.co.uk | James Rebanks
There was a calf born in the bottom meadow this morning. I went to check last night and the mother was lying purposefully beneath some bushes. And at 6am this morning the same ground was muddier, as if the cow had lain on her side half the night thrashing and turning around, but she was now standing proudly with a strong bull calf nuzzling her udder. The calf was black with a bright white stripe round his midriff, and he was shining in wet curls from all the licking his doting mother had done.
