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Lifestyle News

Co-ops claim cheese championships

MILK CO-OPS First Milk and Milk Link chalked up major awards at the Nantwich International Cheese Show – the ‘world cup’ of cheese shows, attracting over 3200 cheeses worldwide.

Funding business skills for rural business women

Lantra, the Sector Skills Council for environmental and land-based industries has submitted a bid to help fund a new programme – ‘Business Skills for Rural Women’ which will be rolled out across eight areas in Scotland.

Share rural supersitions at the heavy horse show this weekend

Lifestyle Features

Fizzing up the Scottish apple market

Scotland’s only dedicated cider producer is offering farmers and landowners the option of planting an alternative crop – apples – which can be grown on any piece of land which isn’t currently proving to be commercially viable.

Happiness on tap

BACK IN his carefree student days, Demijohn founder Angus Ferguson enjoyed a spell of living and studying in the southern Italian city of Naples where, as he puts it, the people “live to eat, rather than eat to live”.

Heads of Ayr Farm Park voted the ‘Best in Britain’

The school holidays are upon us again and for parents it presents the dilemma of how to amuse your children for seven long weeks.

Lucy transfers her skills from saddle maker to bag maker

Many successful businesses are based on the principle of filling a perceived gap in the market.

Wee Wellie Wearers

Recipes

Nettle Soup - courtesy of All Consuming

A fresh, and free soup that can be made from any nettles you find in your garden - remember to wear your gloves when picking them!!

Coffee and walnut cake

Ingredients: (Serves 8)

Raspberry and white chocolate muffins

Ingredients (makes 12):

Easter recipe - Simnel cakes

Yesteryear

Sporting values 50 years on

A DAY’S shooting for £50, a week’s fishing for £20.