Celebrating the Extraordinary Role of the Farmer’s Wife with Helen Rebanks - Episode 155

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4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Rural life in a farming home owes a great deal to the unsung work of those who support it behind the scenes, a fact that’s captured beautifully in Helen Rebanks’ new book, The Farmer’s Wife. Sarah chats with Helen this week to hear some of the stories woven from the wider farming community’s work, and a few of the book’s recipes, which follow Helen’s refreshingly honest and simple cooking style. In this episode, discover: The inception of Helen’s passion for great, simple recipesHelen’s many ...

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by sarahraven.com, which is home to everything you need for a truly
0:06.3	beautiful and productive garden. You'll also find great and essential gardening kit and stylish,
0:12.9	lovely things to have in your house to bring the outside indoors, all inspired by the garden
0:19.8	and the house being tied together. There's also plenty of
0:23.1	garden inspiration, how-to videos and specialist growing guides. So head over to sarahraban.com today
0:29.4	to discover even more. Welcome to GrowCook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven.
0:45.6	And today I'm joined by somebody whose book I read a few months ago actually, Helen Rebanks.
0:52.2	It's called The Farmer's Wife, my life in days, and it's a day,
0:56.9	but also a life. So it goes from dawn until the night time. And it's the most amazing,
1:04.7	beautiful, moving story of Helen, who is James Rebanks's wife and the mother of their four children, and the sort of
1:14.9	hidden life of somebody who has chosen to not live in a city, has chosen to get their sustenance
1:22.5	from the home and the fields and nature and farming. So kind of excitingly different to most of our lives,
1:33.3	I suppose. And for me, I just found it completely transfixing and I read it and then I listened to it in
1:38.7	the car. So welcome, Helen. It's so nice to have you here and to talk about your book. Thank you, Sarah. Thank
1:46.7	you. That's lovely. Not at all. I wanted to start with maybe sort of setting the scene of this
1:53.7	really wonderful description of a great friend of yours, mother's funeral.
2:03.6	And I live in the country too.
2:10.1	And I remember when we came here going to quite soon after we arrived, actually,
2:13.0	it was a terrible tragedy locally.
2:18.3	And I remember going to that and feeling it was the first time that I sort of fully understood what rural life was like and this sort of continuity of generations and this real thread,
2:27.3	even though where I live in East Sussex has changed so profoundly in the last 50 years, which span this man's, this relatively young man's life.
2:36.1	Anyway, I wondered if we could talk about that because it's singing about the importance
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