Contents Comment


4 General secretary Sharon Graham’s view


5 National officer Bev Clarkson writes


News & regulars


5 Top stories Latest Landworker stories


32 Stay safe HSE – Failing for lack of funding


34 Rural life


Heptonstall Museum, Hebden Bridge


36 International Landworker Colombian co-op


37 Gardenwise Summertime garden pleasures


38 On the shelf Review of Net Zero, Food and Farming


22 Features


18 Rural danger for the forest ranger? Will forest rangers be ‘priced out’


20 The good life?


The shocking truth about living and working in the countryside


23 Treated like slaves Migrant workers investigative report


26 Where women are seen as strong A rural woman’s life


28 A woman’s wellbeing Lone working can be tough


30 Mike Ward – the man ‘that just does’ Lifetime legend retires


Campaigns


11 Going hungry in the food factory


Supermarket profiteering


14 Bus route axe ‘catastrophe’ Wales’ rural buses threat


16 No longer a stranger in a strange land A tale from the heart


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18 26 3


uniteLANDWORKERSummer 2023


22 Organising a new type of politics


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Front cover pic: Ellie Jones with rescue pug Lisa by Mark Thomas


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