My Father and Other Animals
How I Took on the Family Farm

I always want to read more stories from the region in which I live, and this one, which deals with sustainable farming, sitting with dispossession and working out who you want to be, is a great, and thought-provoking, read. In his family, Vincent captures some of the transitions happening in small-s......more

I enjoyed this book which is more of a look at how we do modern agriculture than a look into the author’s family life. Though there is plenty of that as well.......more

Part memoir and part argument for regenerative farming (as opposed to conventional agriculture). This book is an easy and enjoyable read, and would make a good introductory text for people interested in regenerative agriculture—in fact given the importance of this for the world everyone should be in......more

A memoir about growing up on a farm, Gollion, which Sam’s father a retired economist runs on common sense lines which remarkably parallel to the regenerative farming established by Charles Massy. This is the most interesting and important part of the book: his father worked out, for instance, that i......more

A rare treat The author had no intention of taking over the family farm from his parents, but finds himself gradually seduced by the blend of challenges and rewards of having to come to grips with the changing demands of farming in the time of climate change. Appreciation for how Aboriginal people vi......more