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Book "Returning Life to the Land, Volume 2, Living and Working on a Subsistence Farm"
Samuel Lewis, subsistence farmer, and self-taught artist continues to retrace his experiences (through his character ‘Tim the Gardener’) of returning fertility to a small patch of ground in Brittany, France.
This book explores at length topics such as growing Winter and Spring cereal crops, building a bread oven, making sourdough bread, clearing overgrown land, building a shed, making a fence to keep out wild animals.
The adventures of Tim are described in silent pictures, with just a small amount of text to direct the reader in the right direction.
Although it is intended for adults, we also find this book really lovely for awakening interest and stimulating enthusiasm in children for these projects that follow the rhythm of the seasons, and for explaining them different tasks before starting them. Younger children can color the lovely drawings while an adult explains them, with the prospect of starting up or working on a given project together.