In our ongoing series, Sally Coulthard shares her tried-and-tested tips from her Yorkshire smallholding

Driving cattle on foot across Scotland, echoing the practices of our forefathers and gaining intimate insight into the animals’ habits, Patrick Laurie discovers that sometimes it really is about the journey as much as the destination

FOR the past months, I have been working on a new book. “In The Company Of Sheep” will be published by Birlinn in September 2026. As readers of these pages will appreciate, though I am no longer a she

Emily Scaife looks at how one family turned their farming fortunes around through conservation grazing and farm experiences

Interested in keeping sheep on your smallholding? Dudley Edmunds looks at the practical steps needed to turn your dream into a reality

Fluid in flight and perplexingly wide-ranging, the short-eared owl is a singular figure in the family– and a figure of particular terror to the vole