The Farmers Choir will take to the stage in Edinburgh on Saturday 29th November (7pm -10pm) in support of rural charity, the Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET). For the first time, the choir will perform at the RBS Gogarburn Conference Centre, with an evening of uplifting music that everyone will enjoy and fundraising to support…

See the wide range of fruit and vegetables the pupils at Borrowfield Primary have been able to harvest! They have sweetcorn, beans, cabbage, tomatoes, potatoes and a whole lot more! Some the the harvest was eaten by the pupils and some was sold from the school gate for a donation. What a successful harvest!

The Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET) Perth & Kinross is delighted to announce the arrival of a brand-new trailer to help transport its wide range of educational resources — including Daisy the fibreglass cow — to schools, farms, and community events across the region. The purchase of the trailer was made possible thanks to the…

We would like to introduce you to Borrowfield Primary School in Montrose, Angus, who we are going to follow across this academic year, as part of The Journey of Food The Story of Vegetables. 

The Royal Northern Countryside Initiative, Royal Highland Trust, Soil Association Scotland, Highland Council and Moray Council are collaborating on a pilot project to get organic peas into school meals, thanks to extended funding from Sustain’s Bridging the Gap Programme.   As well as working with schools directly in Moray and the Inverness area the pea learning…

After a year-long school project all about peas, pupils from St. Peter’s RC Primary School and Skene Square Primary School were warmly welcomed to Farmer Phil’s organic pea farm. Throughout the academic year, students across Aberdeen have enjoyed seeing these locally grown organic peas featured in a range of school meals — from muffins to curries!…

The Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET) has today launched its ambitious fundraising campaign KEEP RHET FREE, aiming to raise £50,000 by December to ensure that children across Scotland continue to access free, unbiased, high-quality rural and food education. The campaign was launched at a food and farming day at Bonnington Farm near Peebles, where close…

We have just concluded our topic ‘From Farm to Fork’. It was absolutely brilliant, with the children taking real ownership of their learning, shaping the path we followed. We had excellent feedback from both the pupils and parents and I thought it might be useful for other practitioners to hear about how we planned the…

This year, education charity RHET has been sharing the story of dairy from grass to glass in a meaningful, creative and hands-on way.  Over the course of the academic year RHET are offering learners many varied opportunities to find out more about the dairy industry in Scotland, both on farm and in the classroom. From…