Outdoors
Food bank donation call from LOVE Gorgie Farm
LOVE Gorgie Farm will be providing breakfast for children amid school closures and set a delivery service from its new café for those staying at home. It is also urging people to donate to its food bank. The education and social care charity LOVE Learning, who recently took ownership of former Gorgie City Farm, decided…
Read MoreRSABI poised to support during tough times
RSABI, the charity which supports people in Scottish agriculture, is gearing up to offer additional support to farming and crofting families. These families, located throughout Scotland, are not only sharing the widespread public concern about Covid-19, they are also dealing with the long hours and stresses of lambing, calving and other spring work. RSABI is…
Read MoreThe life and times of jockey Sam Morshead
Successful former jump jockey and saviour of the popular Perth Racecourse Sam Morshead talks of his swift rise to the top, his many falls, and his love of speed, fishing and charity fundraising. I had an idyllic childhood in County Meath riding my pony on the sandy beaches of Ireland’s east coast. I spent hours…
Read MoreSuccessful night for game and wildlife winners
Two game and wildlife trainees and a school pupil have won at prestigious awards. They took the honours at Lantra Scotland’s ALBAS (Awards for Land-based and Aquaculture Skills), which took place at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Dunblane Hydro. Charlie Blance, aged 20 from Methven, Perthshire, won the Overall Winner Award, the highest accolade of…
Read MoreCat campaign over reportable road accidents
A UK wide campaign group is aiming to have road incidents involving cats made a reportable offence in Scotland. As well as this, they want to make microchipping, and the scanning of, a mandatory requirement, Cats Matter campaign for these three issues and had a lot of success to date. They are currently working with…
Read MoreScottish public values its iconic heather moorlands
Scotland’s bonnie purple heather is one of the country’s most characteristic habitats with heather, berries and grassland accounting for around 50 per cent of all Scotland’s uplands. But how much do we love it, and expect to see it in bloom in late summer, and do we know the many benefits it brings? With the…
Read MoreScottish Rural Awards postponed due to Corona virus
The yearly celebration of Scottish rural community spirit will be postponed for the first time in its six year history due to the corona virus pandemic. The awards will now take place on 25 November. Organisers Scottish Field magazine and the Scottish Countryside Alliance have taken the difficult decision to postpone the event which was…
Read MoreWinners of Lantra Scotland’s ALBAS announced
The achievements of the country’s top land-based and aquaculture trainees were celebrated at Lantra Scotland’s 18th and biggest ever learner of the year awards, the ALBAS (Awards for Land-based and Aquaculture Skills). Around 240 guests, including finalists and their families, event supporters, employers, training providers and industry leaders, gathered at the event in the DoubleTree…
Read MoreCreatures that you wouldn’t expect in Scotland
Bonnie Scotland attracts many foreign settlers, but these are some of our most unlikely immigrants. We’re not talking about people – we’re talking animals! 1. Great white sharks No, really! As great white sharks move further away from their traditional habitats, experts widely agree that seal colonies and the Gulf Stream may entice the ‘white…
Read MoreAre you following Scottish Field on Instagram?
Scottish Field is sharing fantastic pictures of our wonderful country every day via our Instagram account. We love sharing amazing pictures of all things Scottish and some fab behind the scenes images of what the team here gets up to as we produce our magazine each month. Not only as we sharing our own images, with…
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