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