Moonlighting herbal remedies

Moonlighting herbal remediesIn spring 1973, Michael Brown, a young freelance travel writer, took a phone call from a friend: 'Why don't you come down to Somerset and see these things called elvers they migrate up river at night on the high tides and the local's fish for them. It's called elvering.' And so began a lifetime's career, full of ups and downs, as a self employed eel fisherman: from the enchantment of catching them by moonlight, to driving them in battered vans across

unregulated farm life a treasure-house of memories

which ran to 1

On the way

He fishes from the rocks and beaches in a handful of places and that is enough for him

climbs Kenyan mountains

Nomadic predators whose territories range thousands of kilometres

practising medical herbalist

took a bit of getting used to but proved ultimately to be a liberating and unexpected experience

of the wildlife

From his Shropshire farm

Bob Kennard explains the decline of this nutritious and lucrative commodity which once made men rich and kept them healthy

woodlands and limestone pavements