RETIRED sheep grazier John Fenton writes about the trials his family endured to resuscitate their barren Western District farm. The author began farming Lanark, near Branxholme, in 1956 with the belief that if he wanted to sustain productivity, he would have to give the land something in return.
John and his wife, Cicely, began planting lots of trees and reinstating wetland areas on the "moonscape" farm they had inherited.
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