Diversity
Mixing it up
COVER STORY
Orla McIlduff speaks to Arron Kennedy about his route into farming and why he’s rocking the boat to create a better world for his three children John Cottle
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hen you’re growing up, you only dream to be something you can see as a possibility. How can kids dream to be it if they’ve never seen it?” It’s this thought, and not the followers or glory, that drives mixed-race farmer Arron Kennedy to share his life on social media. AK, as he likes to be known, is half Irish, half Jamaican, but was born and raised in the Warwickshire countryside. He’s got farming relatives on both sides of his family; his grandparents on his mum’s side farmed in Jamaica, while his Irish cousins farmed in Tipperary. “It’s in the blood somewhere,” he giggles, as we bond about our similar experiences within large and noisy Irish families. Although always interested in farming, Continued on p20 September 2021
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