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Make Hay While the Sun Shines

A Year on the Farm

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Make Hay While the Sun Shines

By: Tom Pemberton
Narrated by: Tim Rumboll, Tom Pemberton
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 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

For five generations, the Pemberton family have farmed at Birks Farm in the picturesque town of Lytham on Lancashire's Fylde Coast, working at the heart of the area since the 1830s and supplying dairy produce to the local community ever since.

In 2016, Tom Pemberton uploaded a one-minute video to YouTube about how to use the farm shop's new raw milk vending machine. He thought a handful of people would watch it. It turns out many more did. And so he began uploading regular videos, every Tuesday, Friday and the occasional Sunday to show what he gets up to on the farm. Things don't always go to plan, especially when you're the farmer's son, but every day's a learning day and Tom approaches work as he does life in general: stay positive and don't take yourself too seriously.

Make Hay While the Sun Shines takes us behind the farm gate and follows a year on the farm: from calving to maintaining machinery, from mucking out to planning and building a brand-new cow shed. Tom gives us a unique insight into everyday life on a busy dairy farm with all its highs, lows and hard graft. Full of heart, amusing anecdotes and unforgettable characters like Tom's dad, Andy - aka the Ginger Warrior - this is Tom's story of determination, adventure and how to keep a smile on your face even when you're knee-deep in cow poo.

Sunday Times bestseller in May 2022©2022 Tom Pemberton (P)2022 Octopus Publishing Group Agricultural & Food Sciences Animal Husbandry Science Sustainable Agriculture Heartfelt
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I started watching Tom Pemberton YouTube probably about 18 months ago it’s always open and honest and I really enjoyed the book. My only wish it longer 👍🏻 so looking forward to the next one.

Good honest book on farming

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A beautiful book read brilliantly. very very interesting reflecting a hard working life and a passion for his craft.

Wonderful

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well done Tom et al, nice to see a young farmer building bridges, entertaining, informing the general public of the graft, trials and emotions of farming. the paperwork and the multiple skills we need is long and challenging but exciting and rewarding. you tell your story with accuracy , passion and humour!

Farmers lad done good!

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Brilliant book, kept me engaged from start to finish with a good narrator and interjections from the Ginger Warrior himself!

Tom has written a great story about his own Journey set in the year of a life on the farm, and it’s a great view into behind the scenes and the big plans beyond what is on the YouTube channel.

A great book to understand more about farming and the challenges in it!

Excellent book

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I've followed Tom for years on YouTube, even had the chance to meet him and the Ginger Warrior.

This is Toms account of life on the farm at his most honest, sharing the good and bad and the ugly with the added wisdom from the Ginger Warrior. Written by him, in his own words.

Very well written, I'm glad I got this and also purchased a signed copy of the book, having the book & the audio heightened it for me.

brilliant

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