• Dumfriesshire artists' time to shine

    While HAZEL Campbell has never been a ‘natural’ farmer’s wife, she has brought the beauties of rural life into homes all across Britain.

  • Get 'Round The Table'

    SCOTTISH CELEB Carol Smillie has been visiting butchers and farmers in Perthshire and Fife to help promote a new charity cookbook highlighting the value of friends and families making time to prepare good quality meals.

  • Deer stalking fair announced

    The Fair has been put together by two experienced deer stalkers, Brian Lile and Steven McGeachie, to meet the demand for a dedicated stalking event. 

  • Last day of a feathered ruler

    Written by Margaret Shanks, whose pen name was Gretchen when she wrote a weekly household column for The Scottish Farmer. This extract is taken from around 1910. And gives a hilarious account of trying to catch the yards strutting cockerel to get him in the pot. Not as easy as it sounds! (The brown eyes and blue eyes are references to the children at the farm).

  • Family of baby Drew to firewalk in his memory

    A child dies as a result of cot death every nine days in Scotland.

  • Woolly jumpers in sheep-shape condition

    GIVING Ascot a run for its money, Peterborough will be hosting a crowd pulling racing event of its own this month – the Lamb National!

  • Hopetoun Farm Shop to host festive butchery master class

    Budding chefs looking to prepare for the festive season are invited to a Butchery Master Class at Hopetoun Farm Shop on Thursday 25th October.

  • Newton Rigg Society relaunched

    The call has gone out to try to reunite former students and friends of Newton Rigg College, as a former lecturer seeks to relaunch the Newton Rigg Society.

  • QMS competition winner

    Below are the winners of the QMS mother's day competition, with the winners each receiving the new QMS Red Meat Cook Book, and a branded apron. Congratulations to all the winners, and your prizes should be winging its way to you soon.

  • Don't give up on the New Year diet resolutions

    THE BEGINNING of February means that if you are still managing to practice your new year diet resolutions, then well done.