The Ladies of Low Arvie - Living the Farming Dream
Hi
I have been blogging for a while now on my Author's Den web page (see links) and have just set up this new blog to tell other readers all about my life with Richard and 'The Ladies' at Low Arvie.
Low Arvie is our small but beautiful farm set amidst the tranquil beauty of rural Galloway in South West Scotland. We came here in 2002 to a small cottage farmhouse surrounded by 120 acres of very wet and boggy land. The previous farmer had died in 1996 and for the si years before we came, no land husbandry had been done and Mother Nature had gone a good way to reclaim our acres. There was very little 'good' grass and very many rushes and wet holes where the rain of the intervening years had bored its way into the peat and shallow soil to create a quite dangerous environment for both man and beast.
In the last few years we have worked hard to push Mother Nature back and create a safe and secure habitat for 'The Ladies of Low Arvie' and their calves, along with the wild visitors that we see in our fields, brown hares, foxes, roe deer and many species of birds . We bought the Ladies, a herd of pedigree Black Galloway cattle, soon after our arrival, and you can see them (and us) on the Youtube video entitled 'The Ladies of Low Arvie'. There is also a link to my first book which tells the story of our earliest years and how we managed to settle into our new and very different life and begin to raise our calves.
So that is the background to my life and this blog and I hope you will enjoy following my story as it goes along.
Best wishes,
Linda
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