Farmstrong Scotland

🎥Arable Farmer Amy Geddes shares with us how much the team at Wester Braikie Farm look forward to welcoming you all on the 23rd July. With a particular focus on agronomy thanks to Scottish Agronomy Ltd, come along for a good chat, walk around the farm, followed by lunch. Amy will also talk to us about how she takes time out from the farm by volunteering for The Royal Highland Education Trust.   This free event is open to everyone who signs up via our website here: https://lnkd.in/e44w9XvS... NFU SCOTLAND RHASS Movember Rhet Angus Countryside Initiative SRUC SAC Consulting Scottish Association of Young Farmers Clubs The Scottish Farmer

Want to take part in the Munro challenge? Alongside The Royal Highland Education Trust and Scottish Association of Young Farmers Clubs, we're getting behind RHASS's Mighty Munro Muster. #BeActive is one of five ways to wellbeing! Why not join us on Saturday 21 September as hundreds of people from across the three organisations will ascend all 282 Munros within the same 24-hour window. This impressive undertaking is part of RHASS’s 240th anniversary celebrations and aims to raise money between the charities and respective organisations. Use the exclusive discount code: FarmstrongMMM24 to receive a reduced fee of £24 and sign up to climb up here: https://lnkd.in/ee6s8aV2 For more details, head over to our website: https://lnkd.in/e3UH3u3t

'Rural communities reap the harvest of seeds sown helping others' During volunteers week, we spoke with three committed people who are actively involved in 'giving' to their local agricultural show, Turriff Show, Black Isle Show and Perth Show. To give is one of the five ways to wellbeing which forms the cornerstone of Farmstrong Scotland, a movement which is making huge strides in supporting farmers and crofters to look after themselves better. ‘Helping others’ was identified as having a positive impact to their wellbeing by 80% of respondents to Farmstrong’s initial research, conducted by SRUC in 2022. Interestingly, many people who give their time to others - from helping at the local school to picking up an elderly neighbour’s shopping - do not actually see themselves as volunteers. This is a sentiment that rings true for Sarah Mackie, who believes the farming, crofting and rural communities in general are full of people who “just get on and do what’s needed” without any fanfare... To read more about 'giving' and to find out more about the three volunteers, follow this link to our website: https://lnkd.in/ejbMtDyT RHASS NFU Mutual Movember

Taking place next week at Cowbog Farm, Kelso! Got space in your diary Thursday 18 July? A free event not to be missed - we welcome you to sign up and come along to this Monitor Farm event, partnered by Monitor Farms Scotland and Farmstrong Scotland. Focusing on ‘Building Resilience’, you will hear from one of three amazing speakers - including Gerard Vaughan, Director of Farmstrong New Zealand, who will chat to you about personal resilience and discuss his tips and tricks to improve wellbeing. Sign up here to come along to this free event: https://lnkd.in/eGN_RXWb

Walk & Talk event: Taking place on Tuesday 23 July at Wester Braikie Farm, Arbroath, from 9am. We encourage farmers and crofters to attend the Walk & Talk events, with the aim of taking time away to connect, learn, share food and talk about the value of wellbeing as part of the business. Come and learn about the host, Amy Geddes, a fourth generation farmer, and her enterprise of 278ha of spring barley, seed potatoes, vining peas, winter oilseed rape and winter wheat; with 25ha of mixed woodlands and 14ha of margins, fallow and hedges. Amy currently sits on the board of directors for Scottish Agronomy Ltd and is a keen volunteer for The Royal Highland Education Trust, whilst recently taken on the role of Vice Chair of the Rhet Angus Countryside Initiative. To book this free event and for more information, visit our website via this link: https://lnkd.in/dyWh8tyg NFU Mutual Movember RHASS NFU SCOTLAND The Press and Journal The Scottish Farmer Scottish Crofting Federation Scottish Association of Young Farmers Clubs

Our next Walk & Talk event is two weeks away today. Alisdair & Emma Davidson are kindly hosting the event at Poldean Farm, Moffat, on Wednesday 17 July from 1pm onwards. The Davidson's run 300 suckler cows and 450 breeding ewes over two Crown Estate farms, comprising of a mix of land types from rough hill ground to land suitable for growing crops. They have officially began organic conversion this year which has led to growing as many of their own inputs as possible to help improve efficiency, sustainability and profitability. We look forward to seeing you at Poldean Farm in a fortnight's time, as the family give us a tour around the farm, enjoy the views from the Moffat hills and have a bite to eat! To attend this free event and for more information, visit our website here: https://lnkd.in/eUkWn6tn Thank you to NFU Mutual Charitable Trust for sponsoring the Walk & Talk events. Movember RHASS NFU SCOTLAND The Press and Journal Scottish Crofting Federation Scottish Association of Young Farmers Clubs The Scottish Farmer

Farmstrong Scotland are currently inviting tenders to provide the monitoring and evaluation contract for the Farmstrong Scotland wellbeing programme.    Ensuring that farmers and crofters needs are at the heart of the design, development and delivery is at the heart of the programme in order to ensure that we facilitate change and have lasting impact. We want to help improve their wellbeing by providing farmers and crofters with what they want, in a format they tell us they are most likely to use.    Further details on the tender purpose, insights required, scope, methodology, deliverables and timescales can be found on the link below. Should you require any additional clarification please email alix@farmstrongscotland.org.uk.   The deadline for submission is by 5pm on Tuesday 23rd July 2024.

What are you learning right now? Being curious and learning about all sorts of things on or off the farm will help you farm and croft smarter. At whatever age, learning new things keeps your thinking open and flexible. Over the past couple of weeks, we have been sharing snippets of Farmer and Nuffield Scholar, Jock Gibson, at Edinvale Farm as he spoke to us about the importance of learning, as one of the five ways to wellbeing. As part of #WorldWellbeingWeek, we are sharing with you, the full video. Why not make a start on learning something today by checking out our online book club list: https://lnkd.in/e7m8Dz8E NFU Mutual Movember RHASS RSABI Scottish Association of Young Farmers Clubs Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust

What are you going to give to yourself and others today? When you give to others, not only do they benefit, but it also makes you feel a lot happier. Consider the ways you can give back to the people around you, and don't forget about yourself too. At the Royal Highland Show last week, we caught up with Farmer Andrew Barr, who told us what he finds is the most important way to 'give' in order to help his own wellbeing. For more tips, tricks and advice, on improving and maintaining your wellbeing, visit our website: https://lnkd.in/eAs2Qf-w NFU Mutual Movember RHASS RSABI Scottish Crofting Federation #WorldWellbeingWeek

Our friends at RSABI offer free counselling sessions. If this is something you think would be of benefit, please get in touch with them using their helpline number in the post below. #WorldWellbeingWeek