Mind Your Head
Fri 24 Apr
|Longbridge Barn
Best-selling author, Horatio Clare talks to Sussex farmer, Stephen Carr about concerns regarding mental health in the farming community.
Time & Location
24 Apr 2026, 19:00 – 22:00
Longbridge Barn, The Street, Litlington, Polegate BN26, UK
About the event
Horatio Clare is a bestselling author and international Welshman, known for travel, memoir, nature and children's books, his travel and feature essays and his writing and broadcasting on mental health and psychiatry. A former BBC producer, writer and broadcaster he is a senior lecturer in creative non-fiction at the University of Manchester.
Stephen Carr has written for several publications over a 30-year career including, currently, Farmers Weekly and South East Farmer. Under the pseudonym of Bio-waste Spreader he has written the Agri Brigade column for Private Eye for the past 10 years.
Stephen also farms a mixed organic farm of sheep, cattle and some arable on the South Downs in East Sussex in partnership with his wife and four oldest daughters.
Horatio will be in conversation with Stephen as a satellite event in association with the COLLECTIVA Annual Exhibition which is supporting FCN (Farming Community Network) and its work to…
Tickets
General admission
This ticket entitles the holder to one free drink. Donations will be accepted for drinks thereafter.
£10.00
Goes on sale
01 Jan 2026, 12:00