Something prevented me from wading into the Twitter storm sparked by Ranil Jayawardena’s appointment as Environment Secretary under Liz Truss, and the ensuing ELMS drama that caused absolute uproar (explainer… Read more ELMS is a bridge – don’t blow it up →
I knew we were too late to see the Queen lying in state, but I needed to see that queue. Alex and I walked the whole thing, from front to… Read more Curious tales from a queue we weren’t in →
It’s agricultural show season and the Schöffels are on parade. Not even scorching hot sun deters the Schöffel devotee from donning their fleecy gilet – they just lose the shirt… Read more The Schöffel: What fashion says about the urban/rural divide. →
In the autumn of 2015, ready for my first ever Nuffield Farming Conference, I bought a tweed coat. It’s dark green with threads of red and gold, a brown suede… Read more International Women’s Day: My Tweed Coat →
“It was bad. Real bad.” Dad told me about BBC One’s Panorama ‘A Cow’s Life – The True Cost of Milk?’ as I drove home after running a Just Farmers… Read more A Victory for Nuance: Why dairy farmers should thank Panorama. →
Do you identify as an urban person or a rural person? Maybe, like me, you’re a bit of both – a hybrid. In many ways, being a hybrid is great… Read more Why I Wrote ‘Divide’ →
Would you spend £15 on takeaway steak and chips from a food van? This was my dilemma as I loitered around the extortionate street food stalls in the courtyard of… Read more Dance of the Sugar Plum Dairy Beef →
Farm Girl Fish Out of Water It was three days of intense imposter syndrome. I was invited to moderate a plenary at the IUCN Congress in Marseille – possibly the… Read more Farm Girl Fish Out of Water →
ANNA JONES 