Following the huge success of her book, Rooted: Stories of Life, Land, and a Farming Revolution, Sarah Langford has become a voice for the regenerative farming movement and she talks to Alex about her writing and career, her belief that regenerative farming can change the world and what’s next for her.

For nearly a decade, Sarah Langford was a criminal and family barrister.  While on parental leave to have her two children she wrote her debut narrative non-fiction book, In Your Defence: Stories of Life and Law.  Part memoir, part narrative account of cases she was involved in, the book sought to shine a light on the unseen, untold stories behind the world of law. In 2017 she moved with her family from London to the Suffolk countryside, expecting to stay for six months. In the end, they stayed for two years, taking on the running of her husband’s small family farm. Their story is woven around the stories of other farmers she met in her second narrative non-fiction book, Rooted: Stories of Life, Land, and a Farming Revolution. Part-memoir, part narrative account of a selection of farmers from around the country, it seeks to shine a light on the world of farming at a critical point in the future of the countryside. Rooted was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for conservation writing.