All change down on the farm…

Derbyshire Farming then and now

Patrick Coleman looks how farming has changed over the last century.

IF there’s one thing about Derbyshire that doesn’t change, it’s the county’s status as a farming epicentre. From the dawn of agriculture humans have cultivated its soil and grazed animals in its rich pastures. Today, our farmers still tend the land, one of the last links to an ancient earth-based lifestyle, lost to so many in our modern world of cities and cement…