About

Modern Peasant is a blog about traditional skills, folklore, and personal projects from the North East of England and the Eastern Seaboard of Canada.

• Northumbrian X – stories, history, and legends from the Northumbrian region
• River Island – practical projects and experiments from my river island home and workshop

Contact

All enquiries and...let's have a bit natter... contact: [email protected]

Technology

This site is built with a carefully chosen stack:

• Eleventy – static site generator
• Nunjucks – templating engine
• Markdown – content format
• Vanilla CSS – with custom properties
• GitLab – repository & CI/CD
• Peasant Repo – repository for blog
• Cloudflare – hosting with pages.

The code is open source and designed to be fast, accessible, and easy to maintain. No tracking, no ads, just content.

Privacy

I take privacy seriously. This site collects absolutely nothing about you.

• No analytics tracking
• No cookies
• No third-party scripts that collect data
• No advertising
• No email collection
• No user accounts

Signing up with Substack on Substack through the site, will come with their terms and conditions including some of the above.

Your visits are not tracked, your data is not sold, and I don't even know who you are. The only data I see is what Cloudflare logs for security and performance (IP address, user agent, etc.), which is automatically deleted after a short period and never shared with third parties except as required by law.

This site is a labor of love, built with open source tools, hosted on Cloudflare. The code is publicly available because I believe in transparency.

❤️ Built with love, open source and respect for your privacy.