Category: Livestock

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Galloway cattle
Farm Diversification
Lawrence Martin

Championing Native Breeds

Now at the start of a new year, we are looking back at how we have continued to rise to the challenge of regenerative agriculture and looking forward to what more we can do to diversify and still better our impact and contribution to the environment.

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red squirrel
Biodiversity
Zoe Shuttleworth

Northwoods Rewilding Network

Carbeth Home Farm and neighbouring Little Drumquharn have joined Northwoods – a network created by Scotland the Big Picture to support and facilitate small scale rewilding and ecological restoration projects in Scotland.

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Biodiversity
Zoe Shuttleworth

What do we want? Dung beetles!

An unlikely rallying call perhaps, but in the realm of soil health, this particular group of insects can provide profound benefits, including improving soil structure and fertility, reducing the parasitic burden in livestock, and increasing carbon sequestration.

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