Farming family

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This is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing.

Farmers continue to form the backbone of the agri-food sector, which is our most important indigenous exporting industry, playing a vital role in the economy, with 135,000 farms producing over €9.5bn in output annually. In 2021, agri-food exports accounted for 9.3pc of total merchandising exports, with a value of €15.4bn, marking growth of 50pc since 2012.

Family communal living isn't a new trend — rural and farming communities have been practicing it for a long time.