(The Observer, Sunday September 7 2008)
For the first time in generations, more people are moving to the countryside than are leaving, chicken keeping is the UK's fastest-growing hobby and for many self-sufficiency is no longer a pipe dream. Louise France meets four families who've gone in search of the good life.
It's being described as a third agricultural revolution. A new generation of people living - as much as they can - off the land: swapping their inner-city gardens for hardscrabble smallholdings, the daily commute for early-morning goat milking, their domestic cats for pedigree pigs, their Blackberries for home-made compost......
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