Hello, you're listening to me, Liz Earl with Wellness with Liz Earl, and I'm actually away

from my studios at the moment on a research trip so I would like to introduce you in the meantime to another super interesting episode and I recorded this a few weeks ago back in London when I was joined by Helen Browning, OBE, the multi-award-winning

organic farmer, champion of British sustainable farming, a lead on so many food and farming bodies including the Food Ethics Council,

the Agriculture and Environment Bio- Technologies Commission,

the Meat and Livestock Commission, chair of the Animal Welfare and Health Strategy Group, and last but not

least, the Chief Executive of the Soil Association since 2011.

Few, she's a busy lady, and not only 2011. 1300 acre farm in Wiltshire, but she also found time to stop by the

well-being studios to share some of her vast knowledge of the issues surrounding

the way we currently produce and buy our daily food. It's a really fascinating listen. I do hope you enjoy

and don't forget that you'll be able to download the podcast notes with links to

all she talks about directly from the Liz Earl Wellbeing.com website. Take a listen.

So Helen, it's a real pleasure and a privilege to have you here. Thank you for coming to my studios. I'd like to talk to you really about how you got into farming in the first place. What was your journey?

Well, I grew up on a farm. I'm from a long line of farmers as far as I know and I was particularly

inspired by some great aunts that I had living up near the Mor Hills. And these four spinsters had lived and worked on the

farm together all their lives. And I just saw them having this sort of wonderful life actually farming living in a more freeway

than a lot of women were I think back in the 70s they went to market they drank

whiskey they went hunting they did all sorts of they seem to have a

whale of a time and and I love the land I've always loved the countryside I grew up

tagging along behind my father on the farm and by the time I was about eight I knew

I wanted to farm myself.

Did you have brothers and sisters? Yes I did and in fact my youngest sister also farms

so it's strongly in the blood and and I was so lucky to have the opportunity

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