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    TOWN vs COUNTRY

    Aug 25, 2022 5 minutes
    Photos: Joshua James

    I have lost count of the times that I’ve introduced myself as a “farmer’s daughter”. I feel strangely compelled to flag my connection to land and to agriculture; it is often one of the first things people learn about me.

    I can trace this conversational compulsion back to the moment I left our small family farm on the Welsh Borders to go to university at the age of 18, when I found myself living in a town for the first time. The irony of the fact I spent the first 18 years of my life trying to get away from the farm to chase more exciting urban adventures does not escape me, yet still I would doff my hat to the hinterland at any given opportunity – just so people knew where I really belonged.

    “The shift from a rural identity to an urban one is a big

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