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New Zealand’s Resilient Farmer Tours Scotland

New Zealand’s Resilient Farmer Tours Scotland

New Zealand farmer and motivational speaker, Doug Avery, who published his award-winning book, The Resilient Farmer, last year, will be giving a series of talks across Scotland in September and October 2018, and we are delighted to be involved. The tour, Drought,...

Cool business attracts youth to rural communities

Cool business attracts youth to rural communities

Young people have the ideas and the energy to change things for the better in rural places, and it’s my firm belief that, with the support of us ‘oldies’, they can make rural places a magnate for, rather than a ‘has been’ place for the under 30s. It was this belief...

Out the other side of the first-ever Rural Youth Ideas Festival

Out the other side of the first-ever Rural Youth Ideas Festival

We hosted the first-ever Rural Youth Ideas Festival on Rebecca's farm near Kinross last week. Against a backdrop of glamping, live music and local food, over 80 young people enjoyed a line-up of inspiring speakers from rural businesses - from Jamie's Farm to...