Hadden Turner
@haddenturner.bsky.social
Agrarian and nature writer from UK.
Writes at http://overthefield.substack.com
Birdwatching, fell walking, church exploring.
Writes at http://overthefield.substack.com
Birdwatching, fell walking, church exploring.
An essay written with university students in mind who are away from home for the first time.
Wherever you are, for however long, you can still be a blessing to your place.
#rooted
thedispatch.com/article/loca...
Wherever you are, for however long, you can still be a blessing to your place.
#rooted
thedispatch.com/article/loca...
Practicing Rootedness in an Uprooted Age
How to tie yourself to a place—even if it’s temporary.
thedispatch.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
An essay written with university students in mind who are away from home for the first time.
Wherever you are, for however long, you can still be a blessing to your place.
#rooted
thedispatch.com/article/loca...
Wherever you are, for however long, you can still be a blessing to your place.
#rooted
thedispatch.com/article/loca...
The tragedy of what happened at Sycamore Gap has never been far from my mind.
And finally, I have managed to write something which I think touches on the gravity of what happened - and why it should concern us all.
overthefield.substack.com/p/all-that-w...
And finally, I have managed to write something which I think touches on the gravity of what happened - and why it should concern us all.
overthefield.substack.com/p/all-that-w...
All That We've Lost
On the tragedy of 'absolute loss' in the countryside
overthefield.substack.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The tragedy of what happened at Sycamore Gap has never been far from my mind.
And finally, I have managed to write something which I think touches on the gravity of what happened - and why it should concern us all.
overthefield.substack.com/p/all-that-w...
And finally, I have managed to write something which I think touches on the gravity of what happened - and why it should concern us all.
overthefield.substack.com/p/all-that-w...
Latest essay on Over the Field explores the theme of loss in the British countryside, especially those losses that we will never get back.
overthefield.substack.com/p/all-that-w...
overthefield.substack.com/p/all-that-w...
All That We've Lost
On the tragedy of 'absolute loss' in the countryside
overthefield.substack.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Latest essay on Over the Field explores the theme of loss in the British countryside, especially those losses that we will never get back.
overthefield.substack.com/p/all-that-w...
overthefield.substack.com/p/all-that-w...
I enjoyed looking round some spectacular half-timbered churches recently in the Staffordshire-Cheshire borderlands.
However, one little church among the three I visited, was engaged in a quite extraordinary form of deception…
thevillagegreen.substack.com/p/the-little...
However, one little church among the three I visited, was engaged in a quite extraordinary form of deception…
thevillagegreen.substack.com/p/the-little...
The Little Church That Was Not All That It Seemed...
Half-timbered delights in the Staffordshire-Cheshire borders
thevillagegreen.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I enjoyed looking round some spectacular half-timbered churches recently in the Staffordshire-Cheshire borderlands.
However, one little church among the three I visited, was engaged in a quite extraordinary form of deception…
thevillagegreen.substack.com/p/the-little...
However, one little church among the three I visited, was engaged in a quite extraordinary form of deception…
thevillagegreen.substack.com/p/the-little...
On the Cultivate Course I am doing at Crosslands Seminary, we are going to read this little book over the next few months. It is densely packed with life-giving wisdom for the writer and the intellectual.
This thread will be an ongoing repository of the wisdom I mine from its pages.
This thread will be an ongoing repository of the wisdom I mine from its pages.
August 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
On the Cultivate Course I am doing at Crosslands Seminary, we are going to read this little book over the next few months. It is densely packed with life-giving wisdom for the writer and the intellectual.
This thread will be an ongoing repository of the wisdom I mine from its pages.
This thread will be an ongoing repository of the wisdom I mine from its pages.
What are the best books on agrarianism, techno-scepticism, creation care, and rurality?
I give my opinions here:
overthefield.substack.com/p/books-from...
I give my opinions here:
overthefield.substack.com/p/books-from...
Books From My Shelves
A Curated Agrarian Reading List
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August 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
What are the best books on agrarianism, techno-scepticism, creation care, and rurality?
I give my opinions here:
overthefield.substack.com/p/books-from...
I give my opinions here:
overthefield.substack.com/p/books-from...
Latest essay is on the broken economics of our food system, based on a quote from H.J. Massingham
overthefield.substack.com/p/where-do-f...
overthefield.substack.com/p/where-do-f...
Where Do Farmers Get Their Food From?
The answer is logical, rational, and ludicrous
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August 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Latest essay is on the broken economics of our food system, based on a quote from H.J. Massingham
overthefield.substack.com/p/where-do-f...
overthefield.substack.com/p/where-do-f...
The top 11 books that define my writing at Over the Field
The best (in my opinion) books on agrarianism, creation care, and rural philosophy.
overthefield.substack.com
The best (in my opinion) books on agrarianism, creation care, and rural philosophy.
overthefield.substack.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:04 AM
The top 11 books that define my writing at Over the Field
The best (in my opinion) books on agrarianism, creation care, and rural philosophy.
overthefield.substack.com
The best (in my opinion) books on agrarianism, creation care, and rural philosophy.
overthefield.substack.com
Intergenerational transfer of precious knowledge is vitally important. And with each passing day, and each passing death of a 'living library', we are running out of time.
overthefield.substack.com/p/the-living...
overthefield.substack.com/p/the-living...
The Living Library Apocalypse
What will we do when all of the old folk are gone? What precious things will die out with them?
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June 13, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Intergenerational transfer of precious knowledge is vitally important. And with each passing day, and each passing death of a 'living library', we are running out of time.
overthefield.substack.com/p/the-living...
overthefield.substack.com/p/the-living...
In a world of sometimes overwhelming scale, agrarianism offers a refuge for humanity, where our limits can be embraced and affections realised.
This is what I argued in a recent reflection with some help from Wendell Berry
overthefield.substack.com/p/unfathomab...
This is what I argued in a recent reflection with some help from Wendell Berry
overthefield.substack.com/p/unfathomab...
Unfathomable Numbers
Wisdom From the Agrarians: Humanity struggles to cope with big numbers
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May 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
In a world of sometimes overwhelming scale, agrarianism offers a refuge for humanity, where our limits can be embraced and affections realised.
This is what I argued in a recent reflection with some help from Wendell Berry
overthefield.substack.com/p/unfathomab...
This is what I argued in a recent reflection with some help from Wendell Berry
overthefield.substack.com/p/unfathomab...
Spent a few hours yesterday sitting in the presence of a pair of Pied Wagtails. Their ability to catch flying insects mid air (including when they already have a mouthful) is quite extraordinary.
May 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Spent a few hours yesterday sitting in the presence of a pair of Pied Wagtails. Their ability to catch flying insects mid air (including when they already have a mouthful) is quite extraordinary.
An essay on what I believe Wendell Berry would say about the whole Martian Manifest Destiny nonsense that was doing the rounds earlier in the year.
#mars #soilhealth
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#mars #soilhealth
overthefield.substack.com/p/our-manife...
Our 'Manifest Destiny' is the Soil on Which We Stand
We should protect the planet we already have rather than try to colonise Mars
overthefield.substack.com
May 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
An essay on what I believe Wendell Berry would say about the whole Martian Manifest Destiny nonsense that was doing the rounds earlier in the year.
#mars #soilhealth
overthefield.substack.com/p/our-manife...
#mars #soilhealth
overthefield.substack.com/p/our-manife...
In his essay, The Total Economy, Wendell Berry notes that though the awareness and publicity of problems is a good and necessary thing, as problems rise in the public consciousness and become ‘popular problems’, this can lead to a new problem - that of oversimplification...
May 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
In his essay, The Total Economy, Wendell Berry notes that though the awareness and publicity of problems is a good and necessary thing, as problems rise in the public consciousness and become ‘popular problems’, this can lead to a new problem - that of oversimplification...
“Power deals efficiently with numbers that affection cannot recognise” - Wendell Berry
However, as this piece shows, power can also deal 'destructively' with numbers affection cannot recognise - as happened when 18,000 cows exploded on a factory farm.
overthefield.substack.com/p/a-grim-par...
However, as this piece shows, power can also deal 'destructively' with numbers affection cannot recognise - as happened when 18,000 cows exploded on a factory farm.
overthefield.substack.com/p/a-grim-par...
A Grim Parable of the Modern Food System
18,000 cows went up in smoke but will we learn our lesson?
overthefield.substack.com
May 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
“Power deals efficiently with numbers that affection cannot recognise” - Wendell Berry
However, as this piece shows, power can also deal 'destructively' with numbers affection cannot recognise - as happened when 18,000 cows exploded on a factory farm.
overthefield.substack.com/p/a-grim-par...
However, as this piece shows, power can also deal 'destructively' with numbers affection cannot recognise - as happened when 18,000 cows exploded on a factory farm.
overthefield.substack.com/p/a-grim-par...
"The deciders should have to live with the results of their decisions."
Wendell Berry arguing in 'The Whole Horse' that local decision making should be made by those invested in and rooted to their local places.
Wendell Berry arguing in 'The Whole Horse' that local decision making should be made by those invested in and rooted to their local places.
May 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
"The deciders should have to live with the results of their decisions."
Wendell Berry arguing in 'The Whole Horse' that local decision making should be made by those invested in and rooted to their local places.
Wendell Berry arguing in 'The Whole Horse' that local decision making should be made by those invested in and rooted to their local places.
Beautiful understory in Oxenber wood, North Yorkshire.
So many primroses in amongst the bluebells.
So many primroses in amongst the bluebells.
April 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Beautiful understory in Oxenber wood, North Yorkshire.
So many primroses in amongst the bluebells.
So many primroses in amongst the bluebells.
Friends of Friendless Churches featured an article on Church Kneelers in their journal. Ever since, I have been hooked on documenting these important pieces of localist art.
This post documents some of my findings and advocates for their preservation
thevillagegreen.substack.com/p/preserving...
This post documents some of my findings and advocates for their preservation
thevillagegreen.substack.com/p/preserving...
Preserving the Art of the Faithful
Bringing to light localist art: church kneelers.
thevillagegreen.substack.com
April 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Friends of Friendless Churches featured an article on Church Kneelers in their journal. Ever since, I have been hooked on documenting these important pieces of localist art.
This post documents some of my findings and advocates for their preservation
thevillagegreen.substack.com/p/preserving...
This post documents some of my findings and advocates for their preservation
thevillagegreen.substack.com/p/preserving...
Seems like a good time to repost this in light of the chaos in Spain and Portugal.
The importance of redundancy and analog back-ups in a world of digital vulnerability.
overthefield.substack.com/p/when-every...
The importance of redundancy and analog back-ups in a world of digital vulnerability.
overthefield.substack.com/p/when-every...
When Everything Stops
The Blue Screen Of Death and the importance of redundancy
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April 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Seems like a good time to repost this in light of the chaos in Spain and Portugal.
The importance of redundancy and analog back-ups in a world of digital vulnerability.
overthefield.substack.com/p/when-every...
The importance of redundancy and analog back-ups in a world of digital vulnerability.
overthefield.substack.com/p/when-every...
What does a diet that benefits our local place look like?
What does a diet that loves our neighbour look like?
These are the questions I unpack here:
overthefield.substack.com/p/consuming-...
What does a diet that loves our neighbour look like?
These are the questions I unpack here:
overthefield.substack.com/p/consuming-...
Consuming Like a Localist
Our local places can provide almost all of our needs, but not all of our wants.
overthefield.substack.com
April 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
What does a diet that benefits our local place look like?
What does a diet that loves our neighbour look like?
These are the questions I unpack here:
overthefield.substack.com/p/consuming-...
What does a diet that loves our neighbour look like?
These are the questions I unpack here:
overthefield.substack.com/p/consuming-...
What does a diet that benefits our local place look like? That is the question I try and unpack here:
overthefield.substack.com/p/consuming-...
overthefield.substack.com/p/consuming-...
Consuming Like a Localist
Our local places can provide almost all of our needs, but not all of our wants.
overthefield.substack.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
What does a diet that benefits our local place look like? That is the question I try and unpack here:
overthefield.substack.com/p/consuming-...
overthefield.substack.com/p/consuming-...
"Our local places may be able to satisfy almost all of our needs, but it won’t be able to satisfy all of our wants."
"We need to consume in a manner which demonstrates that we really do love our neighbour and the land we live on."
overthefield.substack.com/p/consuming-...
"We need to consume in a manner which demonstrates that we really do love our neighbour and the land we live on."
overthefield.substack.com/p/consuming-...
Consuming Like a Localist
Our local places can provide almost all of our needs, but not all of our wants.
overthefield.substack.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
"Our local places may be able to satisfy almost all of our needs, but it won’t be able to satisfy all of our wants."
"We need to consume in a manner which demonstrates that we really do love our neighbour and the land we live on."
overthefield.substack.com/p/consuming-...
"We need to consume in a manner which demonstrates that we really do love our neighbour and the land we live on."
overthefield.substack.com/p/consuming-...
John Stewart Collis deserves to be better known than he is. He was an insightful, humble, and charming nature/agrarian writer.
April 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
John Stewart Collis deserves to be better known than he is. He was an insightful, humble, and charming nature/agrarian writer.
As Lent draws to a close, here is a essay on how this goose was at the centre of a Lenten controversy, a controversy so severe that it reputedly required a papal injunction to declare that the barnacle goose is a bird - not a fish.
overthefield.substack.com/p/the-curiou...
overthefield.substack.com/p/the-curiou...
April 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
As Lent draws to a close, here is a essay on how this goose was at the centre of a Lenten controversy, a controversy so severe that it reputedly required a papal injunction to declare that the barnacle goose is a bird - not a fish.
overthefield.substack.com/p/the-curiou...
overthefield.substack.com/p/the-curiou...
Is this a goose or is this a fish? It is almost unfathomable, but this really was a pressing issue in the medieval period.
My latest piece is on this controversial bird and one of the most surreal moments in natural history
overthefield.substack.com/p/the-curiou...
My latest piece is on this controversial bird and one of the most surreal moments in natural history
overthefield.substack.com/p/the-curiou...
April 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Is this a goose or is this a fish? It is almost unfathomable, but this really was a pressing issue in the medieval period.
My latest piece is on this controversial bird and one of the most surreal moments in natural history
overthefield.substack.com/p/the-curiou...
My latest piece is on this controversial bird and one of the most surreal moments in natural history
overthefield.substack.com/p/the-curiou...