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Jo Mackenzie: Summer sunshine and farm shop changes at Rootfield By Jo Mackenzie Jo with some of the cattle on the farm. Since the end of term we’ve been so lucky with the weather and it’s been great for outside activity days and al fresco play dates – for the kids and grownups alike. The Rootfield girls have been enjoying being outside, too. Thanks to the hot dry weather, the new paddock grazing platform has however been a bit short of grass with Nick and Scott having to supplement with buffer feed to keep the cows milking well. On a more positive note, herd numbers look set to be b...

By Jo Mackenzie © PRESS AND JOURNAL Jo at Rootfield Farm on the Black Isle, where she lives with her husband Nick, their daughters Daisy and Mollie, and 120 dairy cows. Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up According to research by the Mental Health Foundation, more than half of adults in the UK say being close to nature improved their mental health while four in 10 people say that it made them feel less worried and...

Jo Mackenzie: Making the most of the great outdoors on the farm by Jo Mackenzie © PRESS AND JOURNAL Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Considering the restrictions, our Easter holidays have been busy. The main difference is that anything we are doing is outdoors, which can only be a good thing in terms of our health and wellbeing. Meeting friends and family outside for garden playdates, loch walks, woodland cycle...

by Jo Mackenzie © PRESS AND JOURNAL Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Now that the ground has thawed, Nick has been able to get on with field work this month, ploughing and spreading slurry to fertilise the ground as naturally and cheaply as possible. It doesn’t make for the most fragrant of lockdown walks but it is a working dairy farm after all; dung comes with the territory. What we do find offensive is the...

by Jo Mackenzie © Shutterstock / Africa Studio ' Jasmine Hemsley’s ‘nourishing morning milks’ recipes in my birthday book have helped to break down that tricky lactose for me.' Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Eating well and home cooking were pivotal when I was growing up and, in part, shaped who I became. Food writing is my background. Food – namely milk – is how we participate in the local communit...