Scotland Outdoors

The features shown below were broadcast on Landward on 9 November 2007.

Women's Land Army

This weekend the nation will be marking Remembrance Sunday. At 1100 a two-minute silence is observed to commemorate the contribution of military and civilian servicemen and women involved in the two World Wars and in later conflicts. The Women's Land Army has remained largely unrecognised despite its vital role in the war effort.

Ken Rundle has been researching the contribution of this forgotten army.

Watch Ken's report

Click here to watch an extended interview with Kay Wright, a member of the Women's Land Army during the war.

Carbon-neutral beef

Climate change is not only the greatest environmental threat of the 21st Century, it is also one of the greatest challenges facing the Scottish farming industry. So how can farmers reduce their carbon footprint?

The owners of Whitmuir Organic Farm in West Linton have come up with a solution, and claim to be the first farm in Scotland to produce carbon-neutral beef.

Find out more about the carbon-neutral beef solution

Velvet crabs

Scottish lobster fishermen used to throw away velvet crabs from their creels, but that changed when continental stocks of velvet crab collapsed in the 1980s.

Euan McIlwraith visited Shetland to find out about this increasingly lucrative catch.

Watch Euan's report

The silversmith

Traditional rural craft skills are disappearing at an alarming rate. But some craftspeople are adapting to the changing tastes of 21st Century consumers. In the second of our mini-series we celebrate the meeting of the modern with the traditional. This week - the silversmith.

Find out more about the silversmith

Steadings

Scotland's old farm steadings are disappearing and re-emerging in different guises, snapped up by developers and people who dream of living or working in an ancient building with a rich rural history.

But does the practical reality live up to the dream? With demand reaching unprecedented levels, how soon will it be before no original farm buildings are left?

Page first published on Tuesday 13th November 2007
Page last updated on Wednesday 9th July 2008