Farmer,
Naturalist
and
Writer

Charlie Bennett

Charlie Bennett is a farmer, writer, and passionate advocate for the countryside. He is joint owner of the Middleton North estate near Morpeth, Northumberland, in North East England. Here, he and his wife Charlotte work to support existing wildlife and attract new species alongside sustainable stock farming designed to add to the diversity of wildlife in the area (www.middleton-north.co.uk).

Charlie finds himself compelled to write about and draw the animal and plant life on his land, and to document nature as it is revealed to him daily. His stories and sketches are both whimsical and authoritative, vivid and exquisitely reflective.

Published by Curlicue, the stories included in Down the Rabbit Hole began life as a series of columns for The Northumbrian, a countryside magazine based in Northumberland, UK, which has thousands of subscribers worldwide. They are both a personal memoir and a treatise on farming and wildlife today, combining gentle humour, reflection and insight into the struggles facing humankind and nature in existing side by side.