David Henderson - Farming on the Isle of Arran 

Very interesting. The boat issue is mind boggling!

Really interesting conversation with David about island life, certainly widen my knowledge about the trials and tribulations of island travel. Thanks for sharing, great for walking the dog!

Iona is so sweet. Love her laugh. You two are such a great team. Hello from Canada! 👋

Home school here will have individual households coming together for art classe, trips, special science classes etc

I can’t quite understand why but this older lady from Norfolk really enjoys your channel. Xxx

Another great podcast

Your interview with Davey Henderson was entertaining & informative. I learned a lot about living & farming on an island where you have a ferry that can shut down due to weather, but with livestock to transport to auction or sale is often cancelled without a reason & you are stuck for hours....sounds alot similar to living on Vancouver Island 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦same issues we face here‼️❤ I loved his stories, would love to hear more , he made me want to know more❤

Loving these podcasts and insights on different aspects of farming ❤️

The 'haven't got a clue about farming' gang, like me, are learning so much with these podcasts. Thanks Cammy and Iona and your guests for loads of information delivered with even more laughs.

Interesting chat on this one guys! Even as a non-farmer interesting to hear about the challenges of Island Life as a farmer and a resident. Oh and the Organic chat was interesting too. Really good watch this one 👌

Enjoyed the Podcast and I totally agree with you Cammy with the over feeding of Rams (Tups) I understand why it's done as the Farmer wants his Ram to look its best at sale time but it's a detriment to the actual Ram and for the farmer who buys the Ram as it will never be able to maintain that condition without being fed and that's when the problems start.

There are many people here in the town i live in that home school. Those kids are very bright. I think because of the personal attention they get. They also get to work with their parents in their occupation.

Don't change a thing!! Love all your podcasts

Those tups you bred this year are amazing animals they look great too , definitely one of the best decisions made and spot was another great purchase , he’s saved yer legs n hernia too … top dog seems he’s picked up tips running with meg

Ok, I turned on the subtitles, and everything makes a lot more sense. I was struggling before. 🙂Though I can not multi task.

Brilliant conversation ⭐️ If I had my time again I would DEFINITELY home school.(2 boys) My eldest started school 25 years ago and it was all kinds of wrong and very stressful for everyone.

Cammy, have a look at how much Islay contributes to the exchequer from all the whisky it makes . I think you’ll find it’s not a “drain” M.

Really good point about the tips. Far to many over feed tips not fit for there job.

Another excellent insight to farming in Scotland within an Island set up and the obstacles that exist that most take for granted - mobility, access to services. Keep up the good work and I for one am looking forward to your Friday banter!

how was that an hour I could have listened to so much more from David, a real insight into island farming but only scratched the surface. I look forward to next week

I think that it's lovely that a man who farms on an island understands Snapchat. His story about the child who came and was enamored with the family at the kitchen table brought a tear to my eye.

Great chat, so much info on farming stuff & island life. Thanks

Another banging podcast episode! Brilliant chemistry as always! Absolutely love Arran I spent most of my childhood back and forth to Arran with my grandparents, haven’t been back since I must’ve been 16 I’m now 29 next week - I plan and raising my kids the same way I was with yearly trips to the island ❤️

The ferry saga and associated facts was enlightening to this landlubber. Again a lot learnt. Woe betide you was used frequently to warn of less than desired outcome.

I'm no a farmer, but I love these podcasts and your vlogs. You mentioned maybe doing some on-site podcasts, so maybe Emma & Ewan on Bute with their unique diversification, and your friend Sean in Orkney would be good choices. They're not shy about the camera, and are interesting and funny, and I could listen to you talking to them all day! Nice little side trip for Iona, too. Love you all ❤️.

Excellent podcast. Great to hear how the islands cope or not with a boat or not!! 🛳️👏🐑🤩🛶

Really great podcast , really interesting man , always interesting to here about Island life , the shear simplicity of trying to do all that we take for granted , coupled with the issues of holiday home occupation and the impact on the fabric of community life.The Paps of Jura are very impressive mountains , I can see them here from the North West of Ireland .

Brilliant chat frim all three of you.😊😊 The ferry fiasco is just outrageous. It will lead to depopulation of 5he Islands. Great chat about Rams as well. You will need to have him back so we can hear about his farming career and his farming enterprises.😊😊😊😊

You're doing a great job with this podcast. I always learn something and appreciate being shown other points of view. Your message needs to get to the folks that run our countries. IMO the way forward must focus on local farms.

Amazing conversation

Friday is always a good laugh. Today’s yet another insight into different difficulties of farming life.

Great podcast. Lovely to hear about Island life. And a good laugh as usual

That was a great blog so interesting

Great program ! Do more Very interesting re the mysterious missing ferries, ‘ what a carry on ‘

Could have listened to another hour of that 👍

Very interesting and informative Podcast Had no idea about the Ferry situation It certainly is a disgrace I hope it gets resolved soon BTW I LOVE your Friday Tangents and Tangents in general Probably because I do them so often myself Would like to understand the problems with “Organic” Farming more and the Regenesis philosophy and methods that are going to replace Organic Farming Have you considered interviewing George Monbiot?

Home schooling - in the Highlands they allow part time home schooling, so kids go into school some days of the week and home school for the other days. I wonder if Ayrshire offer something similar. 😊

Cammy , Chet Larsen of Larsen Farms RU-vid was home schooled. He was schooled in the Winter and the Summer so he could work in the spring sowing season and autumn harvest season. He then went to College in his late teens. He has done amazingly well. Lizzy might have a good idea. Best wishes to all of you.

With schooling, bottom line is-whose values do you want your children to adopt? The politicians, or the family who has their best interests at heart?

David was a great guest. I really enjoyed this episode.

Very interesting, I really wish you had been around when my Dad was still around as he would have loved all of these. Came from a farming/small holding turning to market garden family business before training as a teacher in Rural Science Thank you Cammy, Iona and David but also love the previous ones

One off the best ones yet. Really like these Pod casts.

Love. Love. Love. Your podcasts! Just too much laughing to listen at work 😂! But I need a Scots or Slang vocab guide. Help! What's "potatum"? Discussed with cantankerous.

Trains are the biggest subsidised form of transport.

I am on tuning in on Friday because I need an update on DukeGate!

More great crack….it can get a bit technical….but very interesting

Cammy it would be gentlemanly of you to put Iona first in your introduction.What a worthwhile thing to change the lives of youngsters who live in such a negative environments.There is a huge arms dump between Scotland and N Ireland, could cause a problem trying to build a bridge.My husband was aCaptain on Ro Ro ferries, he said that the lorries were lashed down, so why can’t they do it for livestock trailers and lorries?

I planned to visit Arran for a while but we are being put off but the ferry service to be honest. Cannot imagine what it’s like for the residents.

Organic is an EU and now UK legally bound designation. It has it's pros and cons, I don't know where it stands on profolatic dipping of sheep such as Orkney as OP dips are a major no no within their guidelines, as are products such as dectomax. ABP closest slaughterhouse that kills organic beasts to Scotland is Newcastle. I can't comment on other meat processing companies. Regenerative hasn't even got set parameters yet, let alone a legal designation, to call any produce regenerative is purely marketing at the moment. Great pod cast, fascinating to hear about the ferry issues and the length of time it has been running for as well as the long term knock on effects. They will soon have finished making the A9 dual carriageway.....no delays there 🤭

Great conversation, brought up a few things that most people wouldn’t have thought. I couldn’t imagine the work going into loading sheep/paperwork and getting to the ferry and being turned away. You’re not going to endanger your livestock so they really have no right to turn you away. Really enjoyed this. Even Cammy and his reproductive advice 😆 😝

About the hills Ben more on the Isle of Mull is higher than goat fell

Iona, you have some awesome tan. 🙂🙂🥰 someone i won't mention looks so white compared to you haha

So what your saying is that there's a business opportunity to be a organic slaughterhouse in central Scotland .... Shame my degrees in I.T....

Mull has a Munro (Ben More)

Second home ownership should be outlawed

What about a helicopter, For emergencies?

Be-tide was usually used with the meaning of it was fate…or it was going to happen to them … another lovely episode! (I did get so much more out of the episode than the vocabulary lesson 🤦‍♀️🤣🤣🤍)