"In 1982 the Griffiths left the security of suburbia to grow garlic in West Wales. This is a funny and sometimes touching, warts-and-all account of their first three years- of how they learned lambing and marketing and ploughing and hay-making- and of the dung-sodden joys of milking and the surreal terrors of bee-keeping. Be amused. Be very amused. 'Scenes from a Smallholding' is by turns challenging, touching, and informative; but above all, it is very funny.