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.
James Oswald is the Sunday Times-bestselling author of dozens of books including the Edinburgh-based Inspector Tony McLean series of supernatural crime novels. He's also a Fife farmer, and particularly proud of his breeding herd of Highland cattle.
READ MOREFarmers across Scotland are being urged to have their soils tested and analysed in the face of continuing high input prices and ahead of changes to Scottish agricultural support schemes. Angus-based, SoilEssentials – which has recently been tasked with sampling soils across Scotland’s new network of 9 monitor farms - is encouraging farmers to book soil sampling now, ahead of the establishment of spring crops.
READ MORE“While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch.” ― Patience Strong Small businesses are urged to take part in the recently launched survey from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in Scotland - the Big Small Business Survey. This is FSB Scotland’s biggest-ever state of the nation survey project with the aim of capturing a comprehensive snapshot of the trading environment in Scotland. The survey can be completed at https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/bigsmallbizsurvey by 10 March.
READ MORESomething a bit different this week: Anna was recently interviewed by Mary Jane Lawrie for the FAS Sounds Agri Culture podcast, so we thought we'd bring you that interview in full as a behind-the-scenes peak at life at Scene and Herd and OnFARM.
READ MOREDo you have an individual in your organisation who performs undocumented tasks unknown to everyone else? Imagine if they suddenly left...... What would you need to get back to normality quickly?
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