Rats ate my barley, badgers squashed my wheat, and I had so many fried eggs I thought I'd have a heart attack! Man who spent a year living off his smallholding tells JANE FRYER he got so hungry he talked to his radishes
There were plenty of lumps and bumps in Max Cotton's year of total food self-sufficiency - potato blight, rat infestations, hunger and a raging obsession with weather reports.