Scottish School of Forestry Balloch, Inverness, Highlands www.inverness.uhi.ac.uk/ssf The Scottish School of Forestry at Balloch mainly delivers of forestry and arboriculture training and education, from complete beginner up to PhD. The principal institution for forestry training and education in Scotland, the SSF has an excellent reputation for providing successful forest workers and managers for both… Continue Reading
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Rural Tourism Finalists 2018
The Cocoabean Company Twynholm, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries & Galloway www.thecocoabeancompany.com The Cocoabean Company is a family-run chocolate factory and visitor attraction founded in Twynholm in the south west of Scotland in 2005 by owner Claire Beck. What started as a hobby business from a passion for chocolate and a background in new product development soon turned into… Continue Reading
Rural Employer Finalists 2018
Mackie’s of Scotland Rothienorman, Aberdeenshire www.mackies.co.uk Mackie’s is a pioneering fourth generation family, vertically integrated food and farming business – making dairy ice cream and chocolate on the farm in Aberdeenshire. The family have been farming there since 1912 and making ice cream in a ‘sky to scoop design chain’ since 1986. They started making… Continue Reading