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Rural Education Matters: Olivia Shave - From tractors to lunchboxes, why farmers must help rewrite the national curriculum

Olivia Shave, founder of Eco Ewe and campaigner for food and farming education in schools, explains why embedding these topics onto the national curriculum is essential for public health, the environment and future generations

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Rural Education Matters: Olivia Shave - From tractors to lunchboxes, why farmers must help rewrite the national curriculum

I'm Olivia Shave, the de facto captain of the campaign to get food, farming, and sustainability back onto the school curriculum, because it's a bit bonkers that it's not already there. Our farming sector...

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