Commons Stories is a collection of stories from four upland common regions across England: Dartmoor, the Yorkshire Dales, the Lake District and the Shropshire Hills.
You’ll find written and photographic portraits of people, short videos, audio clips, and reflections on events through the year, as well as reflections on some of the challenges of building sustainable futures for people and landscape in these special places.
The collection is put together by somewhere nowhere duo, writer Harriet Fraser and photographer Rob Fraser, with contributions from commoners using GoPro cameras to capture snippets of their day-to-day lives on the farm and in the hills.
Upland farmer Tom Lloyd is secretary of the Longmynd Commoners Association, and with other commoners, grazes sheep on the Longmynd. Here he talks to Harriet Fraser about his experience of farming, the value of the heritage of commons in Shropshire, and collaborative work to care for this special place.
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