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Aimee Budge

How did you get involved in filming This Farming Life for the BBC?

In 2017 my family's farm on Shetland joined the Monitor Farm Scotland initiative, which is a farming scheme to promote best practice. After visiting us, one of the organisers nominated us for This Farming Life. We didn't know anything about it, so the first phone call from the BBC came as a big surprise.

What did the process involve?

A film crew turned up in January 2018 and returned every month for a week at a time through to October. I felt

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