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EXCLUSIVE: Harriet Cowan - "Behind the tidy Instagram squares, there are 5am alarms, frozen pipes and vet bills that make your stomach drop"

In the last of a three-month exclusive column for Farmers Guardian, Clarkson's 51AVÊÓÆµstar Harriet Cowan talks about coming full-circle back to farming and how the industry is part of who she is

Emily Ashworth
Digital Editor
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EXCLUSIVE: Harriet Cowan - "Behind the tidy Instagram squares, there are 5am alarms, frozen pipes and vet bills that make your stomach drop"

March always feels like standing on a threshold. The mud is still clinging to your boots and the mornings still bite, yet the light has changed, the days are stretching out again and the ewes are heavy...

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