WELCOME to Artlinks, Reconnect’s regular look at the work of local artists, edited by former Reconnect editor MARTIN FOSTER, who is now studying fine art at Plymouth University. If you’re an artist working in the Reconnect area, or you’d like to spread the word about...
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It’s time to act responsibly and decently
This issue Reconnect’s old editor MARTIN FOSTER has been moved to comment on the shocking revelations of sexual misconduct that have been uncovered in society. I STILL feel privileged that Scott is happy for me to continue with my More Follows... columns - and I’m...
Still at the start of a new adventure
FORMER Reconnect editor MARTIN FOSTER takes off his wellies and fires up his laptop to bring us another everyday tale of off-grid smallholding folk... DURING my time as Reconnect editor, I always really enjoyed putting together the Feb/Mar issue. With its preview of...
Learning the language of growing
SINCE giving up his Reconnect editorial chair, MARTIN FOS- TER has been getting some dirt under his fingernails – no, he’s not sleeping rough; he’s getting into growing... ALTHOUGH I have been involved in land and landbased projects (some my own, some other people’s)...
Climbing higher and stronger
MARTIN has been struck down with a flu bug, but has still man- aged to contribute to his regular column. It must be down to good planning, surely? I HAD planned to write this column last week (sorry, Scott) but then I was struck by one evil flu bug. And this wasn’t...
Powered by the people of Devon
We can’t let 50 issues pass without letting MARTIN say a bit about the magazine he founded and join the celebrations for this the 50th issue. L IGHT the hilltop beacons, join hands around the world and crank up Spandau Ballet’s Gold – it’s Reconnect’s 50th anniversary...
Livestock from farms not factories
With his smallholding also home to a variety of livestock MARTIN gets to grips with the ethics of eating meat, and the accountability of animal welfare. T HE smallholding on which I now live, Tigley Tump just outside Totnes, is also home to chickens, lambs and pigs....
Connecting to the primal elements
MARTIN’S taking the time to enjoy his new pace of life, his lot with the livestock, and get- ting up with the larks for a bit of animal husbandry.... WORKING in publishing means, as I’ve mentioned before in this column, that you live in a kind of time-warp. I refer...
He’s still here and living the dream
JUST because he’s not trying to coax articles for Reconnect before a deadline anymore, doesn’t mean Foster isn’t still contributing. Here he is with his first update on living the simple life.... I N the months leading up to my handing over to Scott, my stock reply to...