Spanning topics from social isolation to the effect on farming enterprises, the Rural Youth Project has launched a new video diary series – “Country Covid-eos” – to connect rural young people during quarantine. With a new ‘Covid-eo’ launched each Monday, the series will see young people from Scotland, England, and further afield such as Australia,Continue reading “Local and international ‘Covid-eos’ helping rural young people connect amid Covid-19”
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Five Woodworking Projects To Improve Your Farm – Guest post by James Niehaus
Woodworking projects around your farm can change the way that your business functions, and you can use a number of mechanical saws to get the work done. You might purchase a couple of saws that you can use to do small projects around the place, or you might need something much larger to complete larger projectsContinue reading “Five Woodworking Projects To Improve Your Farm – Guest post by James Niehaus”
#FarmerMentalHealth and Considering Online Therapy
It has been brilliant to see the subject of mental health increasingly embraced within the farming and broader rural community in recent months. On twitter there is a hashtag #FarmerMentalHealth which can be used by anybody wishing to discuss the subject or perhaps link to an interesting story or something to inspire or help others.Continue reading “#FarmerMentalHealth and Considering Online Therapy”
Book Review: ‘Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey’ by Madeleine Bunting
‘’Many people travel in search of the exotic and the unfamiliar. I was travelling in search of home, in the hope of knowing and understanding where I could call home.’’ Love of Country tells the story of several journeys made by Madeleine Bunting to the islands off the west coast of Scotland, known as theContinue reading “Book Review: ‘Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey’ by Madeleine Bunting”
The Rural Youth Project
I came across the Rural Youth Project in this week’s Farmers Weekly, a small paragraph on p.8, and this led me to their website. In short the RYP is a research project that aims to better understand the current ‘aspirations, opportunities and challenges’ of young people (18-28), mostly in Scotland but also in England, Wales,Continue reading “The Rural Youth Project”
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