From stoicism to psychedelics, farming's new emotional honesty could be its greatest strength

From stoicism to psychedelics, farming's new emotional honesty could be its greatest strength

When I turned up to the regenerative ag festival Groundswell this year, I didn’t expect to hear a farmer sit on stage and tell everyone that, in a moment of desperation, he’d gone to South America and taken the psychedelic brew ayahuasca. If you’d told me 10 years ago that I’d be sitting at a farming conference listening to a farmer with a thick Welsh accent earnestly discuss how this trip (hello pun!) had influenced his farming strategy, I’d ha…