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In your field: Kate Beavan - "It can be difficult finding a healthy work-life balance on the farm"

Kate farms alongside her husband Jim on their farm near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. Farming 122 hectares (300 acres), the main enterprise consists of 800 breeding ewes and cider made on-site from their orchards. She is a mum of two, runs Kate鈥檚 Country School on-farm and is the woodland creation officer for Stump Up For Trees

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In your field: Kate Beavan - "It can be difficult finding a healthy work-life balance on the farm"

Shearing season has started and the yearlings came out of the wool well. Jim has been shearing the singles, but the twins are not ready. The weather this winter has taken its toll on ewes carrying...

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