News Summary

• Charlotte Du Cann shares a story she wrote when she first met Josiah Meldrum.
• It’s about bakers and bread and grain and what happens when you pay attention to the magical connections in life.
• It was originally drafted in 2009 for a book about East Anglian food crops that Josiah and I planned to write together called Roots, Shoots and Seeds.
• This chapter centres on wheat, the dominant crop of Western civilisation.
• As we head up to Lughnasadh, the gathering time of harvest, this week feels a ripe time to share it.