RSS FeedFarm Machinery at the Fife Vintage Tractor Club Rally 2009 part 2
More of the parade of farm machinery in the ring for cultivating neeps and tatties (turnips and potatoes) at the Fife Vintage Tractor and Farm ...
A Fruit Growing Paradise
The climate and soils around Tayside have always been ideal for growing apples, plums and pears and for hundreds of years the Carse of Gowrie was an established fruit growing region. This was at a time when travel was not so well organised and growers mainly supplied local markets. Each area would grow its own range of varieties suited to its own conditions of soil and climate. We had the Lass O’ Gowrie, Bloody Ploughman and Tower of Glamis, and the Oslin, the Arbroath Pippin was grown in Arbroath. Perth and Kinross Countryside Trust commissioned a survey carried out by Andrew Lear to establish the number and condition of the old Carse of Gowrie orchards and to recommend what can be done to preserve, restore or utilise them. Andrew also runs many workshops on apple pruning, growing and grafting, with information on the workshops as well as the orchard survey on his website at heritage varieties are now making a comeback as people begin to realise these older varieties were not lost...
Garden Sheds Fife
SPECIAL REPORT | Are jails becoming a ball and chain?
For as long as it has been a city, Buckley has had a way to deal with criminals.
Stashed in a city storage shed off of Main is the city's first jail, if you will: a large, heavy ball and chain – the kind that you see in old cartoons – that was fastened to a prisoner's leg to weigh him down if he tried to escape.
Since those early days, Buckley's jail has grown with the city and Buckley has become a place where many of the surrounding towns house their own criminals, including Bonney Lake and, to a lesser extent, Sumner.
In good years, the jail operated as a revenue-generator for the small city, which is restrained by a small commercial tax base and a lack of large housing development proposals.
But as revenue in surrounding cities declines and new competition is being built, the jail in Buckley is beginning to become a ball and chain of its own around the city's ankle.
Garden Sheds Fife- News
After 33 years the Beechgrove Garden's success still blooms
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Coping with cold weather THE treadmill starts this week – yes, we are recording the first of 26 episodes of The Beechgrove Garden. In fact, there are already a couple of pieces “in the can”, as they say. Carolyn Spray visited Cambo Estate on the Fife coast in February to give |
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Ian Rankin Switches To A New Hero In 'Complaints' For his next novel, though, Rankin decided to venture outside Scotland's capital to a town 20 or 30 miles north, called Fife. It happens to be the writer's hometown, and he has realistic expectations on the kind of reception that book might get from |
