OnFARM Podcast

OnFARM Podcast: What3Words: Free easy-to-use app that can save your life

Midlothian mum Rachel Moyes broke her back in four places after being flung from a horse's back in a remote location. Ambulance workers used the What3Words app to find Rachel quickly, and take her to hospital for treatment. Monty hears Rachel's story and speaks with What3Words' Albe Pereira.

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OnFARM Podcast: Peelham Farm's Denise Walton: Nature-friendly farming

Denise Walton trained as an ecologist, but has spent 30 years alongside family and business partners building up Peelham Farm, and expanding into butchery and charcuterie.

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OnFARM Podcast: Scottish farming, food prices, and climate change: a view from SAOS

What needs to happen to prices and ways of working, to enable farming and food production to meet carbon reduction targets? A year on from world leaders amassing in Glasgow to discuss climate change action, and with COP27 underway in Egypt, we're revisiting Anna's chat from this time last year with SAOS chairman John Hutcheson, and Emma Patterson-Taylor, SAOS's climate change and sustainability manager.

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OnFARM Podcast: Natural Farming: Savory-accredited William Houstoun

A chat with Scotland's only Savory Institute-trained holistic management educator. Anna spends time with William Houstoun, who works with farms, estates and other organisations to support their transitions to becoming more holistically-managed and regenerative.

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OnFARM Podcast: The Yorkshire Shepherdess, Amanda Owen

Amanda Owen, 'The Yorkshire Shepherdess', is one of the UK’s most famous farmers. She chats with Anna about her hill farm, and her life as a shepherd, sheepdog trainer, mum-of-9, and best-selling author. 

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OnFARM Podcast: Funding rural Scotland's climate change solutions - with Firstport

Four rural communities from around Scotland have been shortlisted for up to £50,000 of Scottish Government funding to support climate change solutions - administered by First Port, Scotland's agency for start-up social entrepreneurs. Anna speaks with Firstport's Carmen Paputa-Dutu about the shortlisted projects, and funding for similar projects in years to come. This episode is supported by Scottish law firm Gillespie Macandrew.

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OnFARM Podcast: Tillage Live 2022

A wander around the 2022 Tillage Live event held at Dunbar in East Lothian, and organised by the Agricultural Engineers Association. Monty and producer Dave talk to exhibitors and punters, and narrowly avoid getting run over by some big shiny kit. Episode kindly supported by Cefetra.

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OnFARM Helps Podcast: Social media and your rural business

Advice and support for anyone looking to maximise the impact of social media to support your rural business. Anna is joined by social media expert Pam Newby, to make sense of the sometimes intimidating world of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and more.

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OnFARM Podcast: Rural Scotland's two moving tributes to Her Majesty the Queen

Rodney Blackhall and Emma Cheape describe how they both - independently of each other - organised moving rural tributes to Her Majesty the Queen as she was carried by cortège from Balmoral to Edinburgh. Rodney brought together over 40 tractors to stand guard as the convoy passed through Aberdeenshire. Down the road in Perthshire, Emma was standing by with over 30 riders on horseback.

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OnFARM Podcast: Kelso 2022: preparing for Europe's largest tup sale

As final preparations are made for Europe's biggest tup sale at Kelso in the Borders, Monty revisits 23-year-old Andrew Hutcheson, a young auctioneer who first stepped up to the big league at Kelso this time last year. While the sale itself is a frenetic day, Monty hears how Andrew and others spend the weeks ahead of Kelso 'canvassing' farmers to win business. Thanks to auctioneers Harrison and Hetherington for supporting this episode.

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