About Us

Many moons ago, in the deep dark recesses of 2002, Ruth ‘The Big Cheese’ Tott took the plunge and grabbed the chance of redundancy from the Farmers Guardian newspaper to start her own publishing and book retailing company, Farming Books and Videos. After 3 years hard graft, Ruth’s Husband Paul Melnyczuk joined the company as fellow Director so that they could concentrate 100% on building up and expanding the business that had already taken over much of their lives (not to mention the garage and spare room!)

In 2007, they threw away their name (apologies, it’s called rebranding) and became The Good Life Press. and in 2008 launched the monthly magazine, Home Farme