How are your New Year’s Resolutions going? Unsurprisingly, January is the worst time to set new goals owing to a combination of post-festive exhaustion, short days and cold weather. April,…
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Listen to “LEADER funding legacy in rural Scotland” on Spreaker. We look back on 30 years of LEADER grants and funding for development projects in rural Scotland. Anna speaks with…
Listen to “SAOS 5: Co-ops, leadership, and climate” on Spreaker. How effective leadership can encourage those with a stake in rural sustainability to engage with mitigating climate change. In…
The four words I DO NOT want to be saying on my death bed. After a few health scares among family members lately, and having read a book called ‘Everything…
Plans for the AgriScot 2021 competitions are progressing at pace with a new sponsor announcement and a call to young farmers being made for the event’s Business Skills competition. Announcing…
The Scottish Organic Producers Association (SOPA), the UK’s only membership body owning Scottish organic standards, has just completed a project examining a new product in the hope of allowing Scottish…
Connage Highland Dairy, based at Ardersier near Inverness, have this week opened their brand new ‘Connage Express’ vending machine operation. Selling their own organic milk, both pre-bottled and also for…
That was the phrase my dad always used to say to me as a child when he thought I was being economical with the truth! I guess sometimes I was! But…
Listen to “Will Evans from Rock and Roll Farming” on Spreaker. Will Evans of the Rock and Roll Farming podcast passes on tips to Anna, a relative newcomer on the…
I’m a stickler for spelling and grammar (so, if you see any mistakes in this email, please let me know and I’ll be suitably mortified!) and so, whenever I am…
