We are very excited to let everyone know we have been successful in our application to fund a local composting pilot this summer. The programme which will be piloted with 20 homes will allow us to increase our onsite compost production by 200% leading to a reduction in costs and in carbon emissions as we will have to import less resources onto the ...

Summer 2019 Intern Experience at Woodside We have had two interns on the farm this summer: Amor from Spain helped us to look after the kids for a few weeks over the summer holidays while we've been out running a farm, while Camille from France (who just left a week ago)  has been a huge help on the market gardens. We a...

By Jenny As some of you will know I was fortunate enough to be asked to go to Turin last week to attend the Terra Madre Slow Food Festival . This was an incredible event and since returning I have been feeling very inspired and also ready to have a real reality check.  As we have come to the end of the summer season, there has been a drop...

Anyone closely following Woodside Arran in the year since our first blog article will have done well to miss the fact that we have been promoting a mobile shop called The Real Food Shop. Since we first brought the shop up all the way from the south of England it has been a most insightful experience for all involved, so we thought it would be a goo...

  Well I've never written a blog before but with so much new stuff happening on the farm now, well it's just another new experience! Life at Woodside is always a joy, two days are never the same and it's safe to say that we have been busy over the last few months.The fact that you are reading this means that our website is now operational, hoo...