Country Life
Roger Scruton moved to Wiltshire in the early nineties, after a life-time in the city. He has since become a keen conservationist, farmer and keen participant in the local hunt. The farm is all pasture bound by hedges and is part of a countryside stewardship scheme. The farm animals include cattle, hens, sheep, pigs and horses. There is abundant wildlife with rare species including curlews and a fertile pond life.
Roger Scruton is also founder of Horsell's Farm Enterprises, a home-based consultancy which links rural activities and public affairs. He has written on rural life for many national newspapers, with a long-running countryside column in the now defunct FT Saturday magazine - The Business - and contributions to Country Life, The Countryman, and Countryweek Hunting. He is co-founder, with Anthony Barnett, of the Town and Country Forum, devoted to understanding the relations between town and country and re-shaping the political agenda to take account of changed patterns of settlement and production. He is also co-editor, with Anthony Barnett, of Town and Country, the book of essays that grew out of the Forum's work.
Roger Scruton is a firm champion of the small farm and the family farmers, and maintains links with the FFA, the Countryside Alliance, and other movements devoted to ecological and agricultural causes.