Tag: Keith Ferrell

  • How I learnt to survive like an 11th-century farmer

    How I learnt to survive like an 11th-century farmer

    The transition from hunter-gatherer to farmer has always fascinated me. The ability to plant, cultivate and harvest crops stands alongside the emergence of self-awareness, control of fire, the wheel, and the development of mathematics and written language as one of humanity’s transformational events. We became something different once we began to farm. I have found…