As we are "all about the cows" we decided to collaborate with the Royal Highland Show this year with some very special prizes, handmade cattle hide sporrans! These unique pieces will be awarded o the highest placed exhibitor bred animal of each of the following breeds, Highland Cattle, Aberdeen Angus...
Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom MP, Hayley Hanson and Peter Gott, Judge at the Countryside Alliance Finals. Photo Credit Peter Anderson www.andersonphotography.co.uk On 22nd March 2017 the 2016 Countryside Alliance Awards, nicknamed the Rural Oscars, were handed out by the Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom MP at a Parliamentary reception. Businesses from...
Hayley Hanson Hide has won the regional final of one of the countryside’s most prestigious awards. At a ceremony held at the Pierhead in Cardiff on 1 February 2017, Hayley Hanson Hide won the final of the 2016 Countryside Alliance Rural Oscars for Wales, in the Farm Enterprise category. Hayley...
(From the Oxford Mail, 5 December 2013 by Andrew Smith, Business Editor) The cows and sheep grazing on Port Meadow look picturesque, but their happy lives have to end some time.And one farmer is so determined that nothing goes to waste that she has started a business selling sheepskin rugs, cushions,...
(From Farmer’s weekly, Friday 20 April 2012, by Rhian Price) Bovine TB is an unlikely inspiration for an accessories business, but one Herefordshire couple has decided that it is best to meet adversity with optimism. Mike Hanson from Home Farm, Eardisland, has lost more than a quarter of his herd...
(From Metro.co.uk, Thursday 24 Nov 2011, by Aidan Radnedge)Lovestruck farmers Michael Hanson and Hayley Morgan said ‘I moo’ during a cow-themed wedding.After meeting at a young farmers' event, the couple wanted to tie the knot in a way that celebrated their country lives and, after two-and-a-half years together, they certainly...
