The Eye Brook Community Project book on the Eye Brook catchment has now been published as a 143 page hard-back full colour book and is available at £10 in Oakham and Uppingham book shops, or by mail from Natalie Augusztinyi - Tel: 01572 717220 or Email:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

This book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the countryside, including people from far beyond the area it describes, as well as those within it. The book is about the history and wildlife of a farmed landscape, and the context is topical and relevant to researchers and to future policy. There has never been a more crucial time for us to understand the land on which we depend. There has also never been a time when we have been so isolated from it.

The book takes a novel approach to understanding our long and constantly evolving relationship with the land, how it has been managed in the past, and how it can continue to sustain us in future. It concentrates on the catchment of the Leicestershire Eye Brook, an area that is home to a thriving research and demonstration farm and an active community, members of which have contributed to this book in numerous ways. Combining local knowledge with scientific knowledge in this way to develop a shared understanding of how the catchment might be managed in future is a unique approach that is likely to be emulated elsewhere.