Young Farmer Focus - Zoe Legg: "Mental health has always played a pivotal role in my life"

Zoe Legg, 24, is from Exeter in Devon, and she is currently studying agri-food marketing and business at Harper Adams University.

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"As the farming industry begins to share stories of mental health and destigmatise it, more farmers will find the courage needed to ask for help and begin talking. Asking for help is not a weakness, in fact, I believe it is a strength."
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"As the farming industry begins to share stories of mental health and destigmatise it, more farmers will find the courage needed to ask for help and begin talking. Asking for help is not a weakness, in fact, I believe it is a strength."

Having been brought up on a working beef suckler herd, farming has always been part of my life. My whole world changed completely after the death of my dad in 2019. Both my mum and I took the hard...

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