Carla Carlisle, Author at Country Life

Carla Carlisle: Thirty years ago, our farm was on life support. It now thrives — and has 45 people on the payroll

Jeremy Clarkson's travails in farming are as well documented — by himself, in his television series — as they are turbulent. But having embarked on a similar journey herself a generation ago, our columnist Carla Carlisle has words of encouragement.

Carla Carlisle

Carla Carlisle: We've diversified, modernised and compromise — but now we're farming at a loss again for the first time since the 'Great Betrayal'

'It may be vain to think that the past was a cleaner, quieter and kinder place, but it felt pretty decent when you knew your GP and your GP knew you, and milk in glass bottles was delivered every morning'

To Oliver Walston: A visionary, a farmer and a friend

Carla Carlisle: If Jeremy Clarkson was on the ballot, he'd win the farming vote easily

'By the time I wanted to know about the war that had swept over the world and redefined lives, I’d left it too late for first-hand accounts'

Carla Carlisle: The Nanny State isn't to be feared — it can fix pretty anything from the NHS to the Post Office

Carla Carlisle: 'Sometimes, repetition brings revelation'

'From the first page until the last, I was in another country, another world... It was like falling in love'

Carla Carlisle: Trying to believe that people will step back from war, elect an honest man

Carla Carlisle: 'Seamus Heaney deserves a sainthood, as well as his Nobel Prize'

Carla Carlisle: 'What we are witnessing began in 1900BC with Abraham’s journey from Ur to Canaan'

Carla Carlisle: It's taken me years, but I finally understand my father's dying gift to me

Carla Carlisle: 'You don’t need a map to tell you that East Anglia and Russia are closer than they look'

Carla Carlisle on Martin Amis: The 'passionate, graceful, fierce' writer who scared us, challenged us, and brought us understanding

Carla Carlisle: 'I think I sound as English as Judi Dench, but strangers still ask “where are you from?"'

Carla Carlisle: Thirty years ago, our farm was on life support. It now thrives — and has 45 people on the payroll

Carla Carlisle: 'What do the Sussexes want? How does this saga end?'

Carla Carlisle: 'Edit your one and precious life. Prepare for Judgement Day. Do it Now.'

Carla Carlisle: Love doesn't mean never saying sorry — it means saying you’re sorry with some frequency

Carla Carlisle: Why I'm swapping houses with my son and his wife