Blog Articles

With virtual offices across Scotland, we at JCM & Co are well practised in creating a productive ‘work from home’ environment. Here are some of our top tips to make your transition to a virtual office a little easier.

Our guest blog this month comes from Associate Director at Rural Solutions and the principal of the Capheaton Estate in Northumberland, Willy Browne-Swinburne, who offers some positive reflections at this extraordinary time. Coronavirus, as I write, is the single most...

I recently visited a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. It was a paediatric hospital for children with some of the rarest forms of cancer. At the heart of the hospital is a café, with freshly cooked food, much of it made with ingredients from the hospital’s garden. The...

For many it feels like the bastion of the North East’s farming sector is under an endured attack. Red meat, a dominant product from our local farms, should be banished as the dish of choice if you believe either the BBC’s documentary, Meat, a threat to our planet, or...

Scotland has 573 co-operatives with a combined turnover of £2.4bn. Co-ops have a reputation for being old-fashioned and for failing, yet, they are one and a half times more likely to survive their first five years than a conventional start-up business. The ethos of...

From early mornings shifting cattle before the school bus, to summer holidays touring round the local agricultural show circuit, nothing has shaped my life and personality more than being a livestock farmer’s daughter. 1. Livestock come first, but family is essential...

I’m not sure what I expected of South Korea when I visited last month, but a plan to have 84% of the country, including rural places, 5G enabled by 2025 wasn’t a statistic that I expected to scribble in my notepad. This marked intent by Korean’s political and...

This year I left behind the rolling hills of Rydal and swapped them for the sweeping beauty of Scotland. I’ve lived in Rydal since I was five years old and it’s where my family have been since we migrated out from Yorkshire in mid-1800’s. Rydal has a population of 50,...