There is something both proudly old-fashioned and fiercely modern about any farmer who flies in the face of mass food production.
A model farmer with crops and livestock, he has solar electricity and cable television, which are extremely rare in Katine.
(Mohamad Ajub, 22, a farmer from Ghazni province) "My house was confiscated by a Chechen jihadi after the advance of the Islamic State through Riqa".
Christie, an old Etonian organic farmer who has campaigned against globalisation, is the son of Sir George Christie, head of the Glyndebourne opera family.
But another Houston mosque was a target for arsonists in 2011, while in 2006, residents in one suburb mobilised against a plan to build a mosque, claiming that it could become a breeding ground for terrorists and prompting a local farmer to hold pig races on Fridays, a holy day for Muslims.
In the Norfolk Fens – introduced by the photographer Justin Partyka – I met Eric Wortley, a 98-year-old farmer who had worked his family farm throughout his long life, who had been twice to the East Anglian coast, once to Norwich and never to London, and whose speech was thick with Fenland dialect terms.
Many of the speakers had taken their innovative ideas straight out into the field, from Lebanese farmer and food activist Kamal Mouzawak to Rosemary Nalden, a New Zealander living in London who gave up her flat to go to run a music project in Soweto for young children called Buskaid.
On the menu will be two elephants, two buffaloes, two sable antelopes, five impalas and a lion kindly donated by a local farmer.
"I vote SDLP anyway but I think she has stood up for local farmers and in a rural constituency like this, that makes her popular," said a cattle farmer.
Today it belongs to the National Trust and is occupied by farmer Kevin Wrathall, his partner Sandra Swainson and their two daughters.
I know no less than 26-27 cases that never reached police," Kushun Singh, a farmer and neighbour, told the newspaper.
