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.
The Ayrshire committee of RSABI, the charity which supports people working in Scottish agriculture, is this month celebrating raising over £100,000 during the 10 years since it was established.Nina Clancy, Chief Executive of RSABI, congratulated all those who have served on the RSABI Ayrshire committee, and those who have supported its activities, for raising such an exceptional amount.
READ MOREFife Buffalo farmer and star of the BBC’s ‘This Farming Life’, Steve Mitchell, has reached his £800,000 buffalo mozzarella crowdfunding goal, meaning that Scotland will soon taste its first-ever buffalo mozzarella.
READ MORE2020 - as we wave goodbye to the tumultuous twenty-tens and herald a new decade, we've summarised some of the key events and anniversaries coming up in the year ahead, many of which present great opportunities to showcase your rural business and form new partnerships.
READ MOREWorking alongside SAOS, Scotland’s experts on co-operative and collaborative strategies, a group of 29 dairy farmers from the Mull of Kintyre in the West of Scotland, who all supply milk into the Campbeltown Creamery (which makes the famous Mull of Kintyre cheddar) undertook to purchase the creamery from First Milk after it was put up for sale.
READ MOREThe brief from Skyeskyns was to help them to promote their next step towards a neutral carbon footprint – the introduction of skins tanned using mimosa bark.
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