The group has since gone on to use their performances to raise awareness around mental health in the agriculture industry.<\/p>\n
“Locally we don’t open up to our friends and colleagues because we don’t really want to admit too much weakness, but meeting farmers from across the country, it’s a very weird situation,” Owens said.<\/p>\n
“You feel [like] you’re opening yourself up a bit more to strangers, who then soon become friends.”<\/p>\n
Dorset-based farmer Ellie Maguire, from Sherborne, explained there was a “real mental health crisis” currently going on in farming.<\/p>\n
“There’s huge pressures on farmers to make any money from what they do and they all love what they do, so it starts getting really, really difficult to sustain doing it,” she said.<\/p>\n
“The choir has brought us all together – we’re all really close now and we’ve all got someone to lean on someone to talk to.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The group has since gone on to use their performances to raise awareness around mental health in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-492891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}