Moonlighting herbal remedies of the wildlife

of the wildlife

He fishes from the rocks and beaches in a handful of places and that is enough for him

From his Shropshire farm

practising medical herbalist

unregulated farm life a treasure-house of memories

Moonlighting herbal remedies of the wildlifeIn spring 1973, Michael Brown, a young freelance travel writer, took a phone call from a friend: 'Why don't you come down to Somerset and see these things called elvers they migrate up river at night on the high tides and the local's fish for them. It's called elvering.' And so began a lifetime's career, full of ups and downs, as a self employed eel fisherman: from the enchantment of catching them by moonlight, to driving them in battered vans across