How 24 Black Galloway cows, 'The Ladies of Low Arvie', helped us fulfil our dream to live and farm in tranquil Galloway in Scotland.
'The Ladies of Low Arvie' video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR3q8I3ad14
We were in our fifties when we found and purchased the neglected farm, Low Arvie, in beautiful Galloway in 2002. We faced many challenges along the way to creating our small but successful beef rearing enterprise from the herd of Black Galloway cows who are The Ladies of Low Arvie, that we bought to inhabit our fields.
Beginning with the struggle to move not just ourselves, but also my 90 year old mother the 200 miles from Yorkshire to Scotland 'The Ladies of Low Arvie' chronicles our journey to fulfil our dream.
'The Ladies' themselves brought with them much joy and a little tragedy, as we set about learning the ropes of keeping cattle under EC regulations, at the same time as learning to cope with broken second hand machinery and the vagaries of the Scottish weather.
Just how we managed to overcome the hurdles we faced, aided time and again by coincidence and the kindness of our new neighbours, is told in this gentle and heart warming account of Scottish country life.
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