Phoebe Paterson de Heer

Farming and health are intertwined—but in a capitalist food industry workers and land are both rapidly depleted. We need to reimagine agriculture as a site of healing and renewal, not only for the soil and for eaters, but for workers too.

I’ve always loved building, fixing and feeling capable in practical tasks—but in a society that still sees manual labour through a gendered lens, the attitudes of men around me have frustrated this desire at every turn.