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My name is Flavin Obiero.

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I am currently in Fareham,

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Hampshire, south of England,
and I'm a farmer, a butcher and a cook.

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We tenanted farm, We've got pigs,
we've got sheep, goats.

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We've also got a few chickens for eggs.

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We sell all our bodies
directly to the consumer.

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So we're coming up to our third year.

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So let me go four years
to make this something.

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So that pressure is always looming.

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And I knew that from the beginning.

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We moved to England when I was 15 to join
my dad, who was working here.

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I wanted to work with animals,
will be a vet,

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and it became clear quite quickly
how much work I needed to do to be a vet.

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And I didn't do that work sight.

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But after doing a week's work experience
on a farm to gain

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practical experience,
I decided to go down that road.

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I've always liked the practical side.

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It's about me and my 16 year
working in the industry.

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I enjoy it.

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The highs are very high,
the lows are very low,

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and you just got to try and find
a nice medium and cruise on that.

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When I first went on a farm
in this country, I was 19.

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In Kenya, it's

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not a big being in farming
because farming is everywhere.

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Like I'd say,
pretty much at least 80, 90% of Kenyans

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have a direct link
to a form of food production, whereas here

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it used to be like that, but now
it's still be three or four times removed.

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So like in agriculture in the UK,

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you'll probably count
the number of black people

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in the industry actively

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on two hands at best,

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maybe one foot as well.

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So going into it,
I think that was I was naive,

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which is probably helped me

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because I was quite numb
to a lot of the things that were happening

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or things I was hearing,
but it was like going to a new club.

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We want everyone to like you and to fit
in, but we would.

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Madrid on skin color, obviously
always first people often I say, I'm

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a farmer and I love that
because I don't like being put in a box.

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I think

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as as black

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people, we might feel
that it's the in the west

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that the countryside is not for us, but

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you said that

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because if you moved here

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from another country, Caribbean or Africa,

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you had access to the countryside
wherever you wanted.

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So one can have that here.

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But because society
thinks moving into cities

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is where where the money is, most people

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from developing countries are coming to

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the west.

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You're probably coming from a position of

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countryside, living poor,
and you're coming here

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with the narrative
that living in the city is progress.

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I'm a trustee for a charity that like week
long stay visits on our farms

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and then all the kids come from
inner city schools.

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And you see some of the kids
when they turn up

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at the start of the week,
I don't know when they leave.

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It's just like being outside,
being in nature, being around animals,

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exchanges, people.

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We've all got a right
to exist on this planet.

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I don't think that

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the lack of people that look like
you should stop

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you from going out and living in an area
where

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you might enjoy it.

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And I think even if you're the first
person that some of these people see,

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you're going to make it easier
for the next person.

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He's like a chain reaction.

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So What I've done with
the little resources we've had so far.

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Imagine what we can do with more resources
and more of a name and industry.

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So yeah, I've still got still got
plenty in the tank, I'd say.