There is also discussion on regenerative farming which some of us who are not farmers have come across in Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat farm. The five principles are to minimise soil disturbance, maximise crop diversity, keep soils covered, maintain living roots year round and integrating livestock.  This means encouraging biodiversity by leaving hedgerows for birds, insects and other animals, letting wild flowers grow, leaving some fields “fallow” by not growing crops for harvesting but allowing “cover crops” to thrive to improve the overall soil quality.  The regenerative farmers allow trees to flourish near farms and install nesting boxes for birds and bats.

Lip who is often the silent type, despite his name, disrupts an outdoor supper by tipping a spade of soil over the wine glasses and plates of food.  In Act Two we see Ruth exhausted from hard work and Tony tells her she is suffering from a lazy boyfriend (Lip) while he tells her how much he likes her.  Tony has acquired a personal trainer and lost weight.  He explains that he is not seen as a passionate, virile man by women. 

Ruth looks increasingly uncomfortable by this conversation and reveals something that is making her change her priorities.  Lip takes a stone to his mobile phone after ignoring nine of Ruth’s messages.  He is now believing in nature taking back control with no reliance on technology or hospitals or doctors or schools.  He proposes singing, his singing is folk songs, as a substitute for recorded music.