…and a happy new year to anyone who for some bizarre reason may be reading this blog during the holiday season.

Small farm future will now be taking a Christmas break until early in the new year. Upcoming highlights for 2013 will include a report back on the Oxford Real Farming Conference, an analysis of R. Ford Denison’s interesting book Darwinian Agriculture, and doubtless more posts on many other topics that I promised to cover in the past but never did. For me, 2013 is also likely to involve a long drawn out planning appeal against Mendip District Council and a tricky decision as to whether to try to resume life as a commercial grower in the mean time – I’ll keep you posted. Betcha can’t wait!

Chris