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Scotland Outdoors

Grampian Graziers

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Mark Stephen presents Scotland Outdoors

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0:00.0

He tells her that she will be sent to France as a secret agent, and if she's caught, she's going to be shot.

0:09.3

I'm Helen Obalam Carter, and this is history's secret heroes, where I shine a light on extraordinary stories from World War II.

0:17.6

What they wanted was someone to get themselves arrested and sent to Auschwitz.

0:22.0

Tales of deception, an incredible acts of resistance and courage.

0:26.3

She was a born soldier.

0:27.4

She's a freedom fighter in its widest sense.

0:29.9

The brand new series of History's secret heroes.

0:32.8

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:36.2

The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:45.4

Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this.

0:47.9

I'm Mark Stephen.

0:49.7

This week I've travelled up into the hills above Huntley in Aberdeenshire to meet farmer Nicky

0:53.9

Yoxel. Now along with a husband James, they own some Shetland and Galloway cattle known

0:59.1

affectionately as the wee mob. Nikki and James are fairly recent farmers and what really sets

1:05.0

them apart from other farmers nearby is they don't actually own any land.

1:11.8

We're graziers, so that basically means that we graze our cattle on other people's land.

1:16.3

And some of those people are looking for us to help them with biodiversity gain.

1:21.5

So the way that we manage our cattle is that we're moving them frequently,

1:24.8

and we're creating lots of rest in the system.

1:27.1

So the grass will be a lot longer than you might see in some other grazing situations.

1:32.1

And we then work collaboratively with the landowner to help them manage the land in the way that they want it managed.

1:39.1

And we produce 100% pasture-fed beef, which we sell to the local community and also to a restaurant

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