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 2023 Helping It Happen awards from Scottish Land and Estates are now open for nominations. In this mini-series in partnership with SLE, Anna meets the 2022 winners, to find out how the recognition has helped them or given their work a boost.
READ MOREHow 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, on the other hand, is the very epitome of re-birth with hedgehogs coming out of hibernation, blossom emerging and of course lambs and calves in the fields.
READ MOREIncreased integration between farmers and foresters will be promoted at a conference organised by the Institute of Chartered Foresters (ICF) in April. The ICF’s National Conference 2023: Connecting Trees, Farmers and Foresters will encourage rural sector stakeholders to have a frank, honest and engaged discussion about the integration of trees into farming and foster a mutually beneficial relationship between forestry and farming.
READ MOREI’m simply here to say that if you’ve ever considered undertaking any of the training on our OnFARM Academy online training platform but haven’t yet got around to it, today is your lucky day. I’m offering a 30% discount for this week only – it expires on Friday 7th at 5 pm.
READ MOREThe first-ever SAOS Growing Tomorrow's Leaders cohort has recently completed its training. Growing Tomorrow’s Leaders programme has been designed to help Scotland's rural sector cope better with its many and growing challenges, including climate change, sustainability and supply chain issues.
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