Good morning everyone. Well done John Pawsey 🌞 for a great week – that’s a hard act to follow! I’m Stuart Mitchell and run Whitriggs Farm in the Scottish Borders. There’s been some big changes here over the last few years and I’m excited to share them with you this week. Stay tuned.

Whitriggs is a family run business. I run the farm in partnership with my parents Robert Mitchell and Lesley Mitchell. My wife Kate Mitchell also works full time on the farm but is a qualified vet.

Day 2 – Today I’ll show you more about our cattle enterprise and go through how we manage them throughout the year. We have 140 suckler cows that are a mixture of Shorthorn and Aberdeen Angus. We calve over 6 weeks and are almost done with this years calving – only 4 left to go!

Day 3 – Today I’ll talk you through our new red deer enterprise. We introduced the red deer onto the farm in 2018 after undergoing lots of research and training. The deer enterprise was a chance for me to introduce something I am particularly enthusiastic about onto the farm.

Really enjoyed the Pasture For Life farm walk today at Whitriggs. Thank you to everyone who came along - great discussion, excellent questions and lots to think about.

Hugely excited to welcome Stuart Mitchell & Kate Mitchell to our ground-breaking #netzero 3-year project! 🦌🐄🌾 Follow their journey over the coming months as they share their findings and embrace positive changes on the farm. #climatepositive leaf.eco/news-and-media…

Great day with George Fisher on farm as part our LEAF journey to Net Zero project. Looking like its a job of digging deeper into the detail. We will be calculating how long a herbal lay needs to be in to counter the oftake and ploughing of the arable crop.