This publication aims to redefine the term ‘Farmer’s Wife’ by giving space to voices who fall under this often undermining term. A collection of four interviews and photographs (by photographer Georgina MacMillan) which explore what it means to be a farmer’s wife, a mother, a wife and other issues within the farming community such as gender inequality, isolation and succession. The publication is bound with bailer twine incorporated in the French-link stitch, a common object found on farms which serves to represent the feminine feeling, expressed throughout the interviews, of having to be the one to hold everything together.
Using the methods of interviewing, collaboration with another creative and publishing to tell the story of an often overlooked group of the farming community, the farmer’s wives.