Hadden Turner

My first article on my new Substack: Over the field In this piece I explore the theme of limits - especially how they relate to farms and sustainability. Perhaps this illustrates my thoughts on the benefits of small churches as well. haddenturner.substack.com/p/the-good-far…

Very, very good. And very important. frontporchrepublic.com/2026/04/agains…

Superb display of daffodils in the beautiful village of Askham in the English Lake District. The village greens in this village were the best I have ever seen. Splendid.

An essay on how the traditional crafts and industries such as drystone walling and hedge laying provide a home for nature. "A good hedge layer is worth more to the conservation movement than a hundred activists." overthefield.substack.com/p/crafting-a-h…

@AdamMerrivale @DrMarkPickett Last month I was a few feet from her.

@DrMarkPickett This could become a fun game: What's your most tenuous connection with Agatha Christie?

It was great to meet Agatha Christie in Torquay today!

@suzania @Plough things through well before they happen rather than think though our ethical positions in a reactionary manner. John Wyatt would be a good person to write something perhaps.

@suzania @Plough I have no answers to these questions but remember sitting through a lecture by John Wyatt where he outlined all the scientific developments that are likely to happen in terms of genetic modification and transhumanism and him arguing Christians need to be thinking these...

Friends: We have a @Plough issue coming up which will ask the question: What is a person? Who are the key writers we should get in this issue, and what are the key topics -- both Christians and non-Christians?

Modernist art -- made by wood beetles.

In his review of The Land Trap, Hadden Turner writes on soaring land costs worldwide: frontporchrepublic.com/2026/04/specul…

Very pleased to have a review of 'The Land Trap' out in Front Porch Republic. @FrontPorchRepub It is an important book for agrarians to read and for anyone interested in the economics of the land. frontporchrepublic.com/2026/04/specul…

Topics: Agrarianism, creation stewardship, localism, and ecology. Influences: Wendell Berry, Paul Kingsnorth, @herdyshepherd1, Roger Scruton, James C. Scott, 20th C. English Agrarians, @FrontPorchRepub. My writing at 'Over the Field'. overthefield.substack.com

Eat every single one the correct way.

But none of it will be remembered, none of it treasured, and none of it truly marvelled at. All AI content will one day be as valuable as those worthless NFTs are today. Bubbles burst, hypes fade, but quality endures.

Our first Sedbergh Spring Show was a grand success overthefield.substack.com/p/trying-to-do…

Craftland by @HaddenTurner: plough.com/en/topics/life… Many traditional crafts have been lost and more are threatened, but we can learn to value them again.

Not sure what it says about the observational capabilities of *MI6* if they cannot spot that their AI stock images feature a woman with 6 fingers... This is why you don't use AI images...

Delighted to have this published in the Plough. My review of Craftland, a beautiful written (and produced) book on a most important subject: traditional crafts and the men and women who keep them alive. Rich in stories and rich in beauty. A book to cherish.

“Everybody in the world cannot have more than enough of everything.” - Wendell Berry, An Agricultural Journey in Peru.