Primary Industries

In 1739, Major George Lucas moved from Antigua to Charleston, South Carolina, with his wife and two daughters. Soon after their arrival, England...

Tracy Mackness has always had a flair for business - if not all of it legal. She started work as a youngster on her dad's fruit and veg stall in Ro...

What does it take to raise a happy pig? Armed with experience from running the largest organic hog operation in Maine, author Alice Percy is well e...

The coasts of Scotland are a goldmine for fishing boats new and old, and this latest selection from James Pottinger covers a huge variety of them ...

When war was declared in 1939, Britain was almost completely dependent on imported timber but only had seven months of it stockpiled. Timber was c...

Behind every good farmer is a great farmer's wife though the farmer in question may not always appreciate this! Having been married to John for ove...

Cows and Catastrophes includes tales of author Brindley Hosken's 40 years of farming on the beautiful Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, where he has li...

Maritime historian Mike Smylie takes the reader on a wonderfully comprehensive journey through the history of fishing in and around Morecambe Bay i...

For millennia, fresh olive oil has been one of life''s necessities-not just as food but also as medicine, a beauty aid, and a vital element of reli...

The contents of your pint glass have a much richer history than you could have imagined. Through the story of the hop, Hoptopia connects twenty-fir...

The contents of your pint glass have a much richer history than you could have imagined. Through the story of the hop, Hoptopia connects twenty-fir...

David Pearson spent more than four decades working for Ford's tractor business, starting on the production line at the maker's Dagenham factory bef...

The food discussion in America can be quite pessimistic. With high obesity rates, diabetes, climate change, environmental degradation, and common o...

The introduction of the transom stern into the seiner-trawler fleet in the mid-twentieth century was one of the most radical departures in Scottish...

Over the past twenty years considerable public attention has been focused on the decline of marine fisheries, the sustainability of world fish prod...