Scotland

‘Meet the Farmers’- episode 21 – Royal Highland Show with Kelvin Pate

This episode was recorded back in June at the Royal Highland Show which I was visiting for the first time. I speak to Kelvin Pate, a farmer from near Gifford in East Lothian (Kelvin is also NFU Scotland’s Lothian and Borders regional Chair) as well as Jamie Newbould from Scotland’s Rural College and Michael Clarke fromContinue reading “‘Meet the Farmers’- episode 21 – Royal Highland Show with Kelvin Pate”

Best Hiking Trails in Scotland – guest post by Paul McCormin

While there are numerous trails all over the world, Scotland, with its raw and scenic landscape, is one of the ideal places to hike as there are many different trails suitable for different types of hikers. Scotland constitutes over 800 islands with many beaches, pristine valleys, towering mountains and wild coastlines, so there are innumerableContinue reading “Best Hiking Trails in Scotland – guest post by Paul McCormin”

‘Meet the Farmers’ – episode 20 – Martyn Bergius

The third stop on my Scottish Borders road trip was to visit the Bergius family on their heavily diversified organic dairy farm near Galashiels. Their dairy herd consists of Swedish Reds, Montbeliards, Friesians and Danish breeds and they also keep a flock of Lleyn sheep, two large flocks of Columbian Black Tail chickens and makeContinue reading “‘Meet the Farmers’ – episode 20 – Martyn Bergius”

‘Meet the Farmers’ – episode 19 – Jim Shanks

The second stop on my recent road trip was to Jim Shanks’ farm in the Scottish Borders, near Hawick. Jim is a dairy farmer but is also heavily diversified and grows 300 tonnes of red tomatoes each year as well as having a biomass boiler and anaerobic digestor connecting the whole system, cleverly using theContinue reading “‘Meet the Farmers’ – episode 19 – Jim Shanks”

Meet the Farmers Goes North

Hello all and welcome to the new week. Wishing you all a happy and successful one whatever you are up to. I’m about to jump in the car and head off on my first ever road trip for Meet the Farmers. It’ll be focused mostly around south east Scotland but my first stop today willContinue reading “Meet the Farmers Goes North”