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Fields divided by dry stone walls in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. (Photo by Tom Stoddart/Getty Images)
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Practicing Rootedness in an Uprooted Age

How to tie yourself to a place—even if it’s temporary.
Fields divided by dry stone walls in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. (Photo by Tom Stoddart/Getty Images)

For 28 long years, the sunny southern English city of Chelmsford was the place I called home. I was born and bred there as we say: learned to walk and talk in the house still owned by my parents, worshipped there in a small church, was married there, and rented my first house there. Chelmsford made me into the man I am now; it will forever be my heimat.

Hadden Turner is an agrarian and nature writer living in Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales. His writing has been featured in Front Porch Republic, Hearth & Field, Plough, and Premier Christianity. He also writes at the Substack Over the Field.

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