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.
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.
A few more noteworthy mentions. This time with more of an ecological focus. For my writing at thevillagegreen.substack.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:06 AM
A few more noteworthy mentions. This time with more of an ecological focus. For my writing at thevillagegreen.substack.com
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
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.
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.
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...
A selection of some extraordinary churches visited recently in the North York Moors area.
If you want to see more like this then visit my publication concerning all things Rural Britain: thevillagegreen.substack.com
If you want to see more like this then visit my publication concerning all things Rural Britain: thevillagegreen.substack.com
March 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
A selection of some extraordinary churches visited recently in the North York Moors area.
If you want to see more like this then visit my publication concerning all things Rural Britain: thevillagegreen.substack.com
If you want to see more like this then visit my publication concerning all things Rural Britain: thevillagegreen.substack.com
From Wendell Berry. Relevant for the times we are living in.
Essay: Money Versus Goods.
Essay: Money Versus Goods.
February 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
From Wendell Berry. Relevant for the times we are living in.
Essay: Money Versus Goods.
Essay: Money Versus Goods.
There is a chance of snow in the next few days.
Safe to say, this poem that I had published this month describes my feelings at the moment
clayjar.review/issues/thril...
Safe to say, this poem that I had published this month describes my feelings at the moment
clayjar.review/issues/thril...
December 30, 2024 at 1:18 PM
There is a chance of snow in the next few days.
Safe to say, this poem that I had published this month describes my feelings at the moment
clayjar.review/issues/thril...
Safe to say, this poem that I had published this month describes my feelings at the moment
clayjar.review/issues/thril...
No.1
Title: Essex, The County Books Series.
Author: C. Henry Warren
Rating: Excellent.
A wealth of folk history, land wisdom, and agrarian analysis of my home county. I learnt a huge amount about what makes Essex special and unique. And very good and engaging prose.
Title: Essex, The County Books Series.
Author: C. Henry Warren
Rating: Excellent.
A wealth of folk history, land wisdom, and agrarian analysis of my home county. I learnt a huge amount about what makes Essex special and unique. And very good and engaging prose.
December 16, 2024 at 1:05 PM
No.1
Title: Essex, The County Books Series.
Author: C. Henry Warren
Rating: Excellent.
A wealth of folk history, land wisdom, and agrarian analysis of my home county. I learnt a huge amount about what makes Essex special and unique. And very good and engaging prose.
Title: Essex, The County Books Series.
Author: C. Henry Warren
Rating: Excellent.
A wealth of folk history, land wisdom, and agrarian analysis of my home county. I learnt a huge amount about what makes Essex special and unique. And very good and engaging prose.
Tollesbury sail lofts.
December 3, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Tollesbury sail lofts.
Tomorrow marks the solemn anniversary of this piece of classic modern architecture.
I suggest a pilgrimage to the Silver Zone roundabout is in order to mark the occasion.
Here is a homage I wrote to the structure last year:
overthefield.substack.com/p/the-vision...
I suggest a pilgrimage to the Silver Zone roundabout is in order to mark the occasion.
Here is a homage I wrote to the structure last year:
overthefield.substack.com/p/the-vision...
November 22, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Tomorrow marks the solemn anniversary of this piece of classic modern architecture.
I suggest a pilgrimage to the Silver Zone roundabout is in order to mark the occasion.
Here is a homage I wrote to the structure last year:
overthefield.substack.com/p/the-vision...
I suggest a pilgrimage to the Silver Zone roundabout is in order to mark the occasion.
Here is a homage I wrote to the structure last year:
overthefield.substack.com/p/the-vision...
Wonderful church chancel roof - Tolleshunt D'arcy.
November 21, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Wonderful church chancel roof - Tolleshunt D'arcy.
Some wildlife photography from my youth. Notice the fly on the beak
November 9, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Some wildlife photography from my youth. Notice the fly on the beak
A handmade autumnal quilt by my very talented wife, a handmade Scottish jumper, and old german book, a Swiss walking stock, and a handmade moose wooden toy.
November 4, 2024 at 12:21 PM
A handmade autumnal quilt by my very talented wife, a handmade Scottish jumper, and old german book, a Swiss walking stock, and a handmade moose wooden toy.
"The sea knows no time and no era; you cannot tell what century it is from the face of the sea."
- Richard Jeffries, The Round Ocean and the Living Air
- Richard Jeffries, The Round Ocean and the Living Air
September 6, 2024 at 12:18 PM
"The sea knows no time and no era; you cannot tell what century it is from the face of the sea."
- Richard Jeffries, The Round Ocean and the Living Air
- Richard Jeffries, The Round Ocean and the Living Air
Wisdom from the Old Agrarians:
"Age withers the past when we try to keep it embalmed because it is the past. Our contact with the past can only remain living so long as it irradiates the present and teaches us the better how to live in it."
H.J. Massingham, Country.
"Age withers the past when we try to keep it embalmed because it is the past. Our contact with the past can only remain living so long as it irradiates the present and teaches us the better how to live in it."
H.J. Massingham, Country.
May 29, 2024 at 9:49 AM
Wisdom from the Old Agrarians:
"Age withers the past when we try to keep it embalmed because it is the past. Our contact with the past can only remain living so long as it irradiates the present and teaches us the better how to live in it."
H.J. Massingham, Country.
"Age withers the past when we try to keep it embalmed because it is the past. Our contact with the past can only remain living so long as it irradiates the present and teaches us the better how to live in it."
H.J. Massingham, Country.