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Christine Bish is member of management of the National Farm Women’s Club and chair of the RABI Volunteers Committee for Cambridgeshire

This week from ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian editor Olivia Midgley

"To the farmers who are working tirelessly and spending time alone this Christmas, try to find the courage to reach out – no farmer should be alone at Christmas"

"I have been farming as long as I can remember"

This week from ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian editor Olivia Midgley

The Farm Retail Association (FRA) is a thriving network of farm shops, farmers markets, and pick-your-own businesses which was formed at Birmingham's Farmpick Conference in 1979

James and Isobel, with their two young children, recently bought their first farm, and plan to run beef and sheep over 13.8 hectares (34 acres), renting a further 44.5ha (110 acres). James works for tech firm Breedr as UK country manager

Regenerative farming to improve biodiversity needs robust financial support from the Government says Tim Scott

Dan Jones farms 650 ewes at the National Trust-owned Parc Farm, which sits on the Great Orme on the North Wales coast near Llandudno

Baroness Kate Rock is hopeful that newly elected Labour MPs in rural constituencies are already talking sensibly about finding a way forward to protect farms from ‘oblivion’