The Scottish Smallholders' Festival is an opportunity for smallholders to celebrate the wide variety of expertise they have in managing their livestock and various arable crops. It is also a chance to meet lots of very interesting people and animals - poultry, llamas, alpacacs, pigs, donkeys - you name it you can meet them! Many Smallholders are also interested in various crafts and hobbies. Glasgow & District BKA and Lanarkshire BKA will be manning a display to demonstrate the importance of pollinators and to encourage smallhoders to take up beekeeping.

Here is a link to the Smallholders website What's On section: https://ssgf.uk/visitors/whats-on/

If you would like to come along on the day to help man the display, please contact Glasgow BKA secretary (glasgowbeeksec@hotmail.co.uk).

There are various workshops that you can sign up for: broomstick crochet, spining and weaving, pop-pom making to name a few. There are aslo competitions that you can enter, some honey based, others include: baking, eggs, beetroot, jam, oatcakes.. the list goes on! Here's a link to the schedule:https://ssgf.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/gcf-schedule.pdf