The chief executive of a Scottish charity and a farmer who runs a "plate-to-gate experience" on the banks of Loch Ness are among the winners of a new awards program organized by the country's Rural College.
Barry Fisher, chief executive of Keep Scotland Beautiful, and Sally Williams, who runs Clackmae Farm, shared the Alumni Champion Award, the Scotsman reports.
John Elliot, of Rawburn Aberdeen Angus, won the Innovation Award for his breeding program at Roxburgh Mains farm, and farmer Donald Fraser, who with his wife Joanna runs Farm Nessa plate-to-gate experience including a farm shop and takeawayon the banks of Loch Ness, won the New Entrant Award.
Reuben Chesters, founder of Locavore, a social enterprise working to build better local food systems, won the Environmental Sustainability Award and Jenny McKerr, who runs a distillery, farm shop, farm accommodation, and lambing experience on a beef and sheep farm in South Lanarkshire with her husband Stephen, won the Diversification Award.
"Two decades ago, at SRUC's former Auchincruive Genetics, we were full of ambition and now we are creating a sustainable, first-generation agri-tourism business," McKerr says.
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