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Sow & sell

In this age of industrial farming, it's not easy to find a farm that welcomes the public.

Intensive farms don’t have “Open Doors” days, because if people saw the miserable conditions of the animals in those windowless byres, they’d go off their cheap chicken and sausages in a flash. Whitmuir – a model organic farm in the Borders – is quite the opposite.