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Living Off The Land
by Lorraine Turnbull

Blurb

To make her dream come true Lorraine Turnbull dragged her new husband and reluctant children away from Glasgow to live the ‘Good Life’ on a smallholding in Cornwall. Sheep wrestling, making cider, dealing with maggots and a demented mother and all under the pressure of the dreaded Agricultural Occupancy Condition. Lorraine shares the story of the delights and disasters of living off the land in Cornwall and how she finally triumphed over adversity.

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Living off the Land is a very honest and true account of how the author moved from built up Glasgow to living life on a smallholding in Cornwall. She really painted a honest picture of the trials and tribulation of starting the smallholding from scratch and how it effects the whole family in the process. 

I have dreams of moving to the highlands and doing similar – growing veggies and having chickens etc, and what I loved most about this book was how it the showed the good parts of doing so as well all the bad, it didn’t concentrate on good stuff making this a much more relatable read. It was an easy read and written in such a way that you felt like you were chatting with a friend.

4 stars

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Author Bio:

Lorraine Turnbull was born in Glasgow where she lived until 2015 when she and her family moved to a tired bungalow and an acre of land with an Agricultural Occupancy Condition on it in Cornwall. She started a smallholding from scratch, retrained as a horticultural tutor and also worked as a Skills Co-ordinator for The Rural Business School. She began commercial cider making in 2011 and until recently ran a profitable small craft cider business.

In 2014 she was recognised for her contribution to sustainable living by winning the Cornwall Sustainability Awards Best Individual category.

After removing the Agricultural Occupancy Condition on her home she relocated to a smallholding in France.