Tags - Education and skills

Ardtaraig Estate

For a couple of chilly days in April, Ardtaraig Estate on the Cowal Peninsula, in collaboration with the education charity Countryside Learning Scotland, invited four local primary...

Dundonnell and Eilean Darrach Estates

Helping to better understand our planet and its climate is vitally important as we continue to try to manage its resources and the North West of Scotland...

Roxburghe Estate

After the town’s previous allotments had been acquired by a developer in 2006 to build a new supermarket, the local community in Kelso were actively seeking out a new allotment site...

Sorn Estate

Sorn is a traditional rural estate with in hand and let farming interests, let residential property, renewable energy, sporting, forestry and heritage property.

For many years the estate...

Gosford Estate

The Wemyss family have a long standing involvement in golf. They were founder members of the R&A and bought Gosford Estate in 1784 in order to be closer to good golfing ground, which...

In summer 2016, an exciting new redevelopment was unveiled at Dalkeith Country Park.

As part of Buccleuch’s long-term strategy of re-investing in core assets, this multi-million pound project – named...

Teaching pupils to manage their finances is an increasingly important part of the curriculum. However students at a school in Dumfries and Galloway have an altogether tougher budgeting challenge...

Having acquired the most northerly inhabited castle on the British mainland in 1952, Her Majesty The Queen Mother restored it and created the beautiful gardens which are present today at The Castle...

Muirhouse Farm, a Scottish Land & Estates member, has been offering farm visits and farm stays since the current owners, Iver and Wendy Salvesen, started living there in 2003.

They started with just...

Attadale is a 30,000 acre estate in the North West of Scotland. It stretches from the south shore of Loch Carron to Loch Monar, 15 miles away to the east. The Estate has four holiday cottages which...

Lucy Beattie first engaged with Community Learning on her farm at Leckmelm Estate in 2007 when Ullapool High School approached her to engage in a partnership project to deliver a Rural Skills SVQ...

Midlothian Estates Group is a selection of estates and landowners within Midlothian who collectively engage to work towards a more sustainable rural Midlothian. The group have interests in a great...