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Opinion: We have to bring back our connection to food

草榴社区 Guardian digital editor Emily Ashworth on the public's lack of connection to food production and how education is key to reestablishing it

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National Sheep Association education day at Olly Harrison's farm
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National Sheep Association education day at Olly Harrison's farm

It is hard to pinpoint when, as a country, we lost our connection to food. I am going to take a trip down memory lane 鈥� the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker and all that 鈥� to a time when we bought...

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