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Giles Heron obituary: pioneering organic farmer at Bank House Farm
Summary
The obituary notes Bank House Farm was set in rugged, elevated countryside and that Heron described the land in his autobiography Farming with Mary.
Content
Giles Heron was a pioneering organic farmer and the subject of this obituary. The piece highlights his home, Bank House Farm, and his account of life there. He recorded the farm and its landscape in his autobiography Farming with Mary. The property is described as rugged country with a tree-lined beck running through the most workable farmland.
Key details:
- Bank House Farm is described as set in rugged, elevated countryside.
- A tree-lined beck is reported as meandering through the most workable farmland.
- Heron's autobiography is titled Farming with Mary and includes descriptions of the farm.
- He noted the farm's position at about nine hundred feet above sea level and an apparently unbroken moorland horizon.
Summary:
The obituary presents Heron as a farmer who wrote about the landscape and life at Bank House Farm. Undetermined at this time.
