A job for all seasons

Many small-holders have plunged in at the deep end and learnt through experience. But Phyllida Barstow was already steeped in animal husbandry when, as a young woman, she embarked on her own small-holding enterprises. Here is her lively, informative and witty account of her first-hand experience throughout her lifetime in Gloucestershire, with chickes, dogs, goats, horses, sheep, peacock, alpacas and even honey bees.