Laura Brewer has seen her new business thrive in lockdown with the help of the farming community THE FARMING community has helped boost a new businesses which was founded weeks before the Covid-19 pandemic began. While on maternity leave from her job in January last year Laura Brewer, from Ross-on-Wye, decided to turn her love for painted nails into her own business. She retrained as a nail technician before founding Pink Wellies Nails not knowing the challenges her first year is business would bring. I enjoyed my job for a farm and food software company but I wanted to see if I could work so I didn t have to go back, said Mrs Brewer.