This year’s Festival will feature the RBST Scottish Rare Breed Championships, which is a joint effort by the Festival and the Rare Breeds Survival Trust to provide a high level of competition within Scotland for rare and native breed keepers. The RBST Scottish National “Young stock” championships had already been confirmed, but feedback from RBST […]
The 2014 Scottish Smallholder and Grower Festival returns to Lanark Agricultural Centre this September and will be providing several seminars with a focus on helping small scale livestock keepers. The Festival programme will contain talks on cattle, poultry, sheep, goats, pigs and Bees! Northern Field Officer for the Rare Breeds Survival Trust, Ruth Dalton, will […]
The 2014 Festival returns to Lanark Agricultural Centre this September and the organizing team have issued an invitation to all those interested in a sustainable way of life to come along and meet the livestock, view the competition, get answers to their questions and talk to like-minded people. If you are a smallholder, grower, crofter, […]
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The 2014 Festival will feature the inaugural RBST Scottish Youngstock Championships, showcasing the best examples of breeds from the RBST Watchlist past and present.
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Entries for livestock, poultry & waterfowl, and garden, craft & food classes at the 2014 Festival are open now!
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The third running of the Scottish Smallholder and Grower Festival, on the 27th September 2014, promises to be the best yet.