This 52-minute digital download charts the many changes, which have taken place in rural Aberdeenshire and looks at farming from 1793 through to today on the Carney family fairm where I was born and brought up. Listen to the Doric dialect of the area.
The following aspects of change are discussed;
• how the early fairmers took in baron ground using the breem dog
• the process of trenching the ground with the pick and spade Understand how the ridge and furrow system worked using oxen pulling the plough
• how a typical northeast “placie” was worked by four generations of farmers?
• how the traditional 6-year crop rotation produced top quality food featuring the organic ways of the past
• learn from our ancestors how-to live-in harmony with their environment
• see how government and agricultural change has allowed good farm ground to return to its natural wild state
• experience some modern-day rural practices
• see how the fairm steading is made into houses
• acknowledge wind farming as part of the rural economy roon aboot Bennachie
• the footage captures a true reflection of change shared pan Scotland