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Being LGBTQ+ in farming: Stuart Chutter’s story
I am a Canadian farmer and one of likely many rural guys who have believed for too long that it’s…
Caribbean flower farmer, Miles Whitfield, tells his coming out story
Like millions of gay children, from my earliest memories I just knew I was somehow different from other children. I…
Being LGBTQ+ in agriculture: Will Vaughan-France’s story
Somethings in life are obvious, others are less so, writes Will Vaughan-France, farmer and Bayer technical manager… Growing up on…
Being LGBTQ+ in farming: Stephanie Crowe’s story
It took twenty-five years and a Tinder session in Rome for me to tell the world that I am queer…
Being LGBTQ+ in farming: Stuart Chutter’s story
I’m a Canadian farmer and one of likely many rural guys who have believed for too long that it’s not…
Being transgender in farming: Dee Vickers’ story
Working in arboriculture and forestry isn’t perhaps the natural environment to come out as transgender. But Dee Vickers, director of…
Ethnic diversity in UK farming: Partheeban Navaratnam’s story
Farm vet Partheeban Navaratna explains the challenges faced by people of colour working in agriculture, and the value diversity can…
Being LGBTQ+ in farming: Ryan Came-Johnson’s story
‘Those who matter don’t care, and those who care don’t matter’, writes sheep farmer and agronomist, Ryan Came-Johnson, writes… Growing…
Being LGBTQ+ in farming: Ben Lewis’s story
Ben Lewis, a farmer and manager for Rural Payments in Wales, writes: I was born into the umpteenth generation of…
Being LGBTQ+ in agriculture: Emlyn Evans’ story
Emlyn Evans is a volunteer at Gay Farmers Helpline. He grew up in a small rural market village in West…
Being LGBTQ+ in farming: Sam Cooper’s story
As much as I loved my childhood and growing up in the countryside, it wasn’t exactly an environment teeming with…
Diversity in agriculture: Matt Naylor on being a gay farmer
We are thrilled to team up with Agrespect to share and celebrate LGBTQ+ people’s stories who live and work in…