Stories
- Article
Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
- Article
Maria McKinney on ‘Sire’
All my grandparents were farmers; I grew up in the countryside surrounded by farms and helped neighbours herd sheep and cattle into the field. My body of work called ‘Sire’ looks at the genomics of modern cattle breeding.
- Podcast
Farmland
Fruit and vegetables link our hungry bodies to the world of plants. Yet many of us have little understanding of the farming industry and the impact that bringing crops to our plates has on the planet.
- Article
The girl with no name
When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Records relating to Crichton Royal Farm
Date: 1956-1986Reference: DGH1/3/4Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Books
Genebanks and the management of farm animal genetic resources / editor, J.K. Oldenbroek.
Date: [1999], ©1999- Archives and manuscripts
Crop Management
Date: 1956-1983Reference: DGH1/3/4/1Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Farm Statistics and History
Date: 1974Reference: DGH1/3/4/3Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Books
- Online
Practical agriculture; or, a complete system of modern husbandry : with the methods of planting, and the management of live stock / By R.W. Dickson.
Dickson, R. W.Date: 1805