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🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Helen Needham visits Nikki Yoxall and her herd of pasture fed cattle in Aberdeenshire
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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. |
0:35.6 | This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:43.8 | That's Annie. That was her first calf badger. |
0:50.7 | That's her second calf cricket. |
0:53.0 | Over there is Acorn. her calf crocus behind her. |
0:57.0 | Acorn's mum is Betty, Betty's the lead cow. |
1:00.1 | Nikki Yoxel is a regenerative farmer who has two herds of cattle grazing pasture and woodland |
1:06.0 | tucked into the hills of Aberdeenshire. You'll have gathered already that Nikki has an intimate relationship |
1:12.5 | with their animals, really because she's interacting with them every day through a system known as |
1:17.5 | mob grazing. I'm Helen Needham and in this edition of Scotland Outdoors, I learn about |
1:23.7 | Nikki's approach to beef production, which involves feeding purely grass and hay, |
1:29.4 | and the resulting benefits for the natural environment and the health of the cattle. |
1:34.6 | This is the wee mob, which is the affectionate term of our main herd of cattle. |
1:40.6 | It's about 45 in here. They're a mix of mostly native rare breeds. So we've got some |
1:46.0 | Shetland, we've got some Galloways as well, and we also have some pedigree native Angus in here too. |
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