News from the field

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Rural Britain is a wonderful assortment of farms, estates, hamlets, villages, forests and moors, lochs and valleys. Our stunning scenery, close communities and wonderful rural businesses provide an idyllic lifestyle for many, but rural life can also throw up some pretty unique challenges.

The Rural Scene (the Scene & Herd rural blog and news updates) looks at what’s new, what’s relevant, what’s tasty, what’s fun and what’s challenging about life in the Great British Countryside. We offer an insider insight into rural Britain, highlighting some of the exceptional people, businesses and innovations we believe that everybody should know about.

OnFARM Podcast: Andrew Arbuckle: champion pole vaulter (repeat)

After lots of lovely feedback on last week's episode with 91-year-old East Lothian farmer Willie Logan, and the launch of OnRECORD to capture memories of Scottish agriculture, we are re-sharing this chat from our archive.

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New Project Launched This Week...

We, the Scene & Herd team, are so excited to have this week launched a brand new project. OnRECORD is a personal recording service, aimed at capturing rural voices for posterity.OnRECORD helps rural families, communities and organisations to preserve unique voices, stories and memories for the future with professionally captured and expertly edited audio recordings of guided conversations.

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New Audio Memories Project, OnRECORD, Launched by the Makers of the OnFARM Podcast

The makers and producers of the popular OnFARM (Food, Agriculture & Rural Matters) podcast, Scene & Herd PR and Marketing, have today launched OnRECORD, a personal recording service, aimed at capturing rural voices for posterity.OnRECORD helps rural families, communities and organisations to preserve unique voices, stories and memories for the future with professionally captured and expertly edited audio recordings of guided conversations.

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The First Time

How often have we tried something, or witnessed others trying to do something, and not been great at it?I still refuse to go ice skating because the first few times I tried, I was hopeless (and now I never go because I simply can’t afford the inconvenience of breaking my wrist!) and I often hear my ten-year-old daughter showing reluctance to do something because she isn’t yet good at it.

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OnFARM Podcast: OnRECORD: Willie Logan on 91 years (and counting) of farming life

Willie Logan from East Lothian shares memories of farming, horses and families, from his 91 years (so far!) living and working in Scottish agriculture.

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