Sisters star in video
A video to teach youngsters where their food comes from and to support Scottish farming has enlisted two children from the Strath to star in the first episode of‘The Farm Kid Diaries’.
Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) launched the series at the weekend, aiming to connect children with how their food is produced and those who make it happen.
Spanning topics from calving to cropping and lambing to planting, the farming video diary series to connect country kids with their city counterparts, supporting home schooling during lockdown.
Sisters Millie (9) and Ellie (7) Ritchie live on Montalt Farm near Dunning with their parents Alix and John.
They can be seen in the first instalment with special guests Bill the agility dog, Helen the hen, and pet calf Tipper.
Millie and Ellie help out on the family farm and hope to show children who can’t get out and about right now what it is like to live on a farm.
Millie said:“We’ve got a farm with 730 ewes and 60 cows.
“In these videos Ellie and I want to show kids who are stuck home how we help put food in their fridge.”
Lesley Cameron, director of marketing and communications at QMS said:“We have launched the diaries to communicate how animals are reared and to provide fun videos for parents to use with their families.
“With the younger generation increasingly more aware of where their food comes from, this video series will help bridge the urban rural divide and champion the high animal welfare and environmental credentials we have in Scotland.”
Commenting on her children’s involvement, Alix Ritchie said,“It’s great that the girls wanted to be involved in the initiative and help educate other children who have no connections to farming.”
The video series, which can be viewed on QMS’s social media channels, will run throughout April and young people keen to tell their own farming story are encouraged to get involved by filming their own story using the #FarmKidDiaries hashtag and tagging @ QualityMeatScotland on Facebook or @qmscotland on Twitter and Instagram.
The best video, judged by QMS chair Kate Rowell, will win £50 of Amazon vouchers.