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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 19h

In the rather swish Absolutely Berkshire Magazine with #GhostsoftheFarm #booksky ‘We ask an awful lot from our farmers, in a way we don’t from other people’s jobs. But we need farming to work for all of us. Farmers, consumers, climate & wildlife are the 4 legs holding up the table we eat from.’

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Chelsea Green Publishing @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social · 12h

How do some plants live for thousands of years? Which adaptations & evolutionary strategies allow them to thrive in some of the harshest places on the planet for so long—and so well?

#NewBookAlert IN BOTANICAL TIME is available for preorder—releasing Feb 2026. #BookSky #Nonfiction
bit.ly/3VYNYcG

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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoying "Finding Lights in a Dark Age" by that @chrissmaje.bsky.social which arrived a good week before the official publication date, but I need to stop reading now and go to the allotment...

You can buy it and support your local bookshop at Hive: www.hive.co.uk/Product/Chri...

www.hive.co.uk

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🌿Forrest 𓆝 𓆟 @strayhounds.bsky.social · 7d

I finished Eagar: the surprising, secret life of beavers and why they matter by @bengoldfarb.bsky.social ! What an amazing book, one that makes you long for the soggy landscape of America before colonization. Eager was written with a true love of beavers and their place in the ecosystem, covering --

Book cover reading "eager: the surprising secret life of beavers and why they matter by Ben goldfarb, foreword by Dan flores." The cover is mostly white with a small silhouette of a beaver below the title

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Chelsea Green Publishing @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to @robintransition.bsky.social's new episode How to Fall in Love with the Future on How to Train a Happy Mind #podcast
www.skepticspath.org/podcast/how-...

How to Fall in Love with the Future—Rob Hopkins #205 - How to Train a Happy Mind

Climate activist and author Rob Hopkins invites us into his time machine to explore how we can fall in love with the future.

www.skepticspath.org

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 3d

A wonderful night to launch #GhostsoftheFarm, & a lovely, lively sell-out crowd in this pertinent setting! Huge thanks Muna Reyal @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social & @hungerfordbookshop.bsky.social It’s out in the world! Look out for Doris & Julia on their straw-yellow Fordson tractor, Racing Lizzie!

With my fab editor, Muna Reyal, Emma Milne-White of Hungerford Bookshop & her team

A sell out crowd at Hungerford’s historic Croft Hall!

Signing Ghosts of the Farm & On Gallows Down, with a (rare!) copy of Miss White’s original book, The Inkpen Saga, which inspires much of my book
(Thanks Mike Robinson!)

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Martin Empson @resolutereader.bsky.social · 5d

My latest book review looks at @nicolawriting.bsky.social's wonderful "Ghosts of the Farm". It tells the story of Julia White, a woman farmer in the 1940s, together with Nicola's own story and ponders land, gender, politics and much more. Read it.
resolutereader.blogspot.com/2025/10/nico...

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Chelsea Green Publishing @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social · 5d

@nicolawriting.bsky.social writes with poetic intensity, painting indelible portraits of local people and landscape, but at the same time she asks pertinent questions, reflecting on where our society is going...A joy to read."
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/when...

When women work the land

Ghosts of the Farm: Two Women’s Journeys Through Time, Land and CommunityNicola Chester, Chelsea Green, £22FOLLOWING her award-winning On Gallows Down — a passionate and very personal account of life ...

morningstaronline.co.uk

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Chelsea Green Publishing @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social · 6d

@chrissmaje.bsky.social's Vision of a Post-Capitalist Eco-Localism that Works with @davidbollier.bsky.social
www.bollier.org/blog/chris-s...
david-bollier.simplecast.com/episodes/chr...

Chris Smaje's Vision of a Post-Capitalist Eco-Localism that Works | David Bollier

www.bollier.org

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Chelsea Green Publishing @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Pleased to see Chelsea Green titles here!
🌳Gaia's Garden
🌳The Earth Care Manual
🌳The Edible Forest Gardens
🌳Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening
#BookSky

Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 8d

Catherine Habgood compiles the 10 best books on permaculture, featuring recommendations from experts David Holmgren, Claudia Joseph, and Tony Rollison.

The 10 Best Books on Permaculture

To begin, it may be helpful to define permaculture, as the term itself dates back only to 1978. The word is simply a portmanteau of “permanent” and “agriculture,” and was coined by Bill Mollison an…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 8d

Catherine Habgood compiles the 10 best books on permaculture, featuring recommendations from experts David Holmgren, Claudia Joseph, and Tony Rollison.

The 10 Best Books on Permaculture

To begin, it may be helpful to define permaculture, as the term itself dates back only to 1978. The word is simply a portmanteau of “permanent” and “agriculture,” and was coined by Bill Mollison an…

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Chelsea Green Publishing @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Happy Publication Day, @nicolawriting.bsky.social! 💙📚💡
#BookSky

Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 8d

It’s book publication day for #GhostsoftheFarm! It’s been a lifetime’s companionable & instructional haunting, & I’m thrilled to bring these women from out the shadows, honour them & raise & address my own rural ghosts. Love & thanks to @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social & my early readers too x

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Chelsea Green Publishing @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social · 9d

Rediscover the lost words of an ancient land in this new and updated edition of an international bestseller.⁠

#BookSky THIRTY-TWO WORDS FOR FIELD by @manchanmagan.bsky.social is available for preorder now in North America—releasing Feb 24, 2026. ✨ ⁠

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/812752...

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Chelsea Green Publishing @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social · 9d

Wonderful to see Ghosts of the Farm by @nicolawriting.bsky.social included here!

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Chelsea Green Publishing @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social · 12d

Great to see A SMALL FARM FUTURE by @chrissmaje.bsky.social here!

Hadden Turner @haddenturner.bsky.social · Aug 5

The top 11 books that define my writing at Over the Field

The best (in my opinion) books on agrarianism, creation care, and rural philosophy.

overthefield.substack.com

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 13d

'Ghosts of the Farm is a bridge between eras, between classes and perhaps, between people. All it takes is an open heart.'

Melissa Harrison reviews @nicolawriting.bsky.social’s latest — our September Book of the Month www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/nico...

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Nicola Garrard 🏳️‍🌈BLM @nmgarrard.bsky.social · 14d

I was thrilled today to receive an early copy of Nicola Chester’s beautiful new book, #GhostsOfTheFarm. The Preface is stunning - I can’t wait to read the rest of it. Thank you, @chelseagreen 🌱❤️
#ruralhistory #sustainability #environment #womeninfarming #farminghistory

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 14d

Sorry, but book is out next week & promo I must. You know - 3 yrs work & all that, & through some big stuff. And the wonderfully kind @joannacdobson.bsky.social has said this about it; & I’m utterly made up: “there’s a universality about it …I’ve never read anything quite like it.’ #booksky

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orfc.bsky.social @orfc.bsky.social · 14d

🌾Oxford Real Farming Conference 2026 tickets are now on sale! 🌾

Join thousands of farmers, activists, policy experts, and scientists who share your vision for a fairer food and farming system on 8-9 January 2026.

In-person and online tickets available: orfc.org.uk/book-orfc-20...

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Chris Smaje @chrissmaje.bsky.social · Sep 8

I enjoyed talking with Lucy Ridge about my new book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' on Agroecology Radio Hour

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#DarkAgeLight

Episode 6 - Chris Smaje - Agroecology Radio Hour

In this months episode we chat with Chris Smaje; he is an aspiring woodsman, stockman, gardener, and peasant in Somerset, southwest England. Chris is also an author who writes urgently about the need ...

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 16d

That one of your most favourite poets ever, should say such a thing … am giddy with delight!

Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · 16d

Delighted that @nicolawriting.bsky.social 's 'Ghosts of the Farm is Book of the Month on @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social website. Trust me, the horses alone are compelling... but then the story unfolds of one woman's entry into farming...& so much that still haunts us today! Read a tempting extract!

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 15d

Delighted to see my beloved local newspaper giving me a shout out. Lovely words here from Newbury Today/ Newbury Weekly News Launch tix, 3rd October! @hungerfordbookshop.bsky.social www.newburytoday.co.uk/lifestyle/be...

‘Beautifully written’ new work by Inkpen author Nicola Chester

Nicola’s own farming dreams woven into the true story of Miss Julia White, a single woman who modernised a derelict farm in Inkpen in the 1940s.

www.newburytoday.co.uk

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 20d

Thrilled that #GhostsoftheFarm is @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social’s BOTM … you can read an extract on The Bedroom Carpet Farm, here:

Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 21d

'I am eight years old.

I am a horse.

But. I am also its rider.'

Read an extract from @nicolawriting.bsky.social's ‘Ghosts of the Farm’ (@chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social) - our September Book of the Month www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/nico...

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 21d

'I am eight years old.

I am a horse.

But. I am also its rider.'

Read an extract from @nicolawriting.bsky.social's ‘Ghosts of the Farm’ (@chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social) - our September Book of the Month www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/nico...

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Chelsea Green Publishing @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social · 22d

Happy UK Publication Day to THE NATURE OF FASHION by @carrysomers.bsky.social! #BookSky

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