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Well it’s the 1st of September already and here I am in my office of the outside kind sowing osr! Where time goes I can’t get my head round it, was mid July when silly season started and nearly 2 months later it’s September!! Feels like only 3 weeks ago. Harvest started early this year by a few days and to start with the weather was good, the barley was gotten in and did well. We had both glacier and volume varieties, was very little... 

Andy’s August crop round-up As we move into the final few months of 2014 and begin to look to the year ahead, the question we’ve been asking ourselves at Terravesta is this: does the 2015 Miscanthus harvest have the potential to be the best we’ve seen for five or six years? If the top-quality crop I have seen around the country is anything to go by, and these favourable weather patterns continue, the answer is a resounding ‘yes’.   In... 

My relaxation journey started way back in April of this year when @LuxuryHideaways was the custodian of the Farmers of the UK twitter account. Caroline and her husband Ross gave us a week long insight into their business and the farm they run in Angus just north of Dundee, the city of discovery. Towards the end of the week they ran a competition, simply re-tweet their tweet and a winner would be drawn at random at the end of the week. In for a penny... 

With heavy heart I have to report that truly shocking and heart-breaking news continues to bleed out of Ukraine. On the 17th July a missile was fired at civilian flight MH17 bringing it down inside the conflict region of eastern Ukraine. All 298 passengers and flight crew including 80 children on board perished. I don’t even know where to begin with this, as a father with young children I am particularly sensitive the images of children’s belongings... 

I’ve been meaning to sit down and write this blog on numerous occasions over the last couple of months. But as ever for this time of year shearing has taken over my life for these past few months, and has left me soaking in a hot bath trying to loosen up before the next day, obviously this is after a couple of pints in whichever pub we happen to be passing on our way home. Every year around the beginning of May I’m waiting for the phone to...