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.

June 4, 2020

SoilEssentials Launch Highland Show Alternative Catch Ups for Charity

SoilEssentials Catch Ups - Angus based precision farming solutions pioneers SoilEssentials have announced that they are going to be arranging catch-up calls and chats to anyone who would have been planning to visit them at this year’s Highland Show in order to say hello, and raise money for charity at the same time.

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June 1, 2020

OnFARM RHASS Podcast 4: Taking Care of Business

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May 28, 2020

Podcast Offers up Food and Farming Focussed Homeschool Inspiration

The latest episode of OnFARM, Scotland’s Rural Podcast, has been working in partnership with RHET (The Royal Highland Education Trust) to provide some rurally inspired home-schooling tips and advice for parents and teachers.

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May 25, 2020

OnFARM RHASS Podcast 3: Home schooling with RHET

Anna speaks with Katrina Barclay from the Royal Highland Education Trust.Since the start of COVID-19, RHET's work has quickly adapted, to focus on supporting parents, families and teachers to deliver lockdown home-schooling.

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May 18, 2020

OnFARM RHASS Podcast 2: Meet You In the Usual Place

‍Meeting Friends: For many, the Royal Highland Show is their one big chance each year meeting friends and to re-connect with people they don't otherwise manage to see.

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