Juliet Nicolson

A call to farms: how a London barrister rediscovered her agricultural roots

Sarah Langford returns to the farming life of her childhood and finds blood, guts – and buttercups

Winter barley ripening in a field near the village of Holcombe in Somerset. [Matt Cardy/Getty Images]

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