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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Joanna Partridge in Powys

A joyful harvest: the young Welsh farmers growing food for Birmingham

Tilly Gomersall stands on her famr with a crate holding some of her harvested herbs
Tilly Gomersall harvesting dill on her farm in Powys. Photograph: Andrew Fox/The Guardian

Kilos and kilos of courgettes, cucumbers, tomatoes and salad leaves are ripe and ready for picking on a small Welsh farm in the rural county of Powys.

The haul being harvested by Tilly Gomersall is not just impressive after a difficult growing season hit by a record string of heatwaves and drought across all of Wales and most of England, but all the more remarkable given that 18 months ago the site was uncultivated pasture.

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