{"id":289027,"date":"2026-02-09T16:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289027\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:53:06","slug":"herefordshire-farmer-to-walk-142-miles-for-mental-health-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289027\/","title":{"rendered":"Herefordshire farmer to walk 142 miles for mental health support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A farmer and mental health activist has started his 142-mile (229km) walk from Herefordshire to London to raise awareness for the struggles faced by the farming community. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sam Stables, co-founder of We Are Farming Minds, set off from Ross on Wye Market on Monday morning and will walk about 30 miles (48km) a day before reaching The Farmers Club in London on Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The walk has been done in partnership with the Farm Safety Foundation &#8211; Yellow Wellies and its Mind Your Head campaign. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s really important to me, not just my own personal struggles with mental health but I&#8217;m also aware British farming is in crisis,&#8221; he said before setting off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A farmer and mental health activist has started his 142-mile (229km) walk from Herefordshire to London to raise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-289027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}