In 2002 my partner, Richard and I, bought a 120 acre wet and boggy farm called Low Arvie in SW Scotland. We arrived at the farm with no experience and no equipment. This is the story of the twenty months from the day we first saw the farm to the successful birth of our first batch of home bred calves.
We faced and dealt with many challenges in that time, including:
taking my 90 year old mother to Scotland with us
learning to live with a limited supply of water from the farm well
coping with the only bull in Scotland that didn't know what to do
dealing with old second hand machinery that didn't work
learning all the rules that we had to live by which didn't fit the Scottish climate
discovering that cows are often more intelligent than us!
'The Ladies of Low Arvie' tells our roller-coaster ride through these months and how we won through in the end and came to succeed.
We faced and dealt with many challenges in that time, including:
taking my 90 year old mother to Scotland with us
learning to live with a limited supply of water from the farm well
coping with the only bull in Scotland that didn't know what to do
dealing with old second hand machinery that didn't work
learning all the rules that we had to live by which didn't fit the Scottish climate
discovering that cows are often more intelligent than us!
'The Ladies of Low Arvie' tells our roller-coaster ride through these months and how we won through in the end and came to succeed.
