Food and drink

RHET Live presents talk to a farmer week!

Over the course of the week RHET and partners will have a host of different farmers from across the country on hand to talk to your class about how different foods are produced. This year the focus is on farmers producing seeds and grains. Sessions include robotic dairy farming, finding out more about farming and the environment, working as a vet and highland cattle. 

 

Scotland’s community tourism network is launching a nationwide roadshow in a bid to support existing community tourism providers and encourage more communities to take a lead in providing grassroots owned tourism facilities and services.

Join Farmstrong Scotland, a new well-being initiative, for their 12 date 2023 launch tour - “Live well, to Farm and Croft Well” - which kicks off at the Royal Highland Centre, Ingleston on the 30 January and ends on the 16th February in Stirling.

Pragmatic approach to support hosts during cost of living crisis.

Recognising the pressures short-term lets hosts face at this time, legislation has been laid to extend the deadline for applying for a licence by six months to 1 October 2023.

A total of 680 rural businesses with projects that protect the environment and mitigate the impacts of climate change will share more than £14 million this year from the Agri-Environment Climate Scheme (AECS).

The Scottish Wildlife Trust have just released an excellent and engaging film about the relationship between islanders and the sea focusing on Orkney. 'Our film – Oceans of Value', captures interviews with 26 local people in Orkney to unearth their values and relationship with the sea, how they have seen the marine environment change and how they would like to see it managed in the future.

Appointment of Members to the Board of Quality Meat Scotland (x3)

NatureScot has used its intervention powers to carry out a cull of red deer in Sutherland.

Findings for Scotland from the Small Business Survey 2021.

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