‘They’re at the forefront’: the women leading the way through Britain’s farming crisis

Holly Collins and Megan Jones in the Lake District. Photograph: Bryn Lees

Back in the 1970s, Holly Collins was studying for her A-levels in Sussex. While her friends sent off their university applications, she wrote to the Royal Agricultural College asking for an entry form, hoping to follow her dream of becoming a farmer.

“They wrote back with the following answer: ‘Dear Miss Collins, we do not admit women.’”