56.28° N · 3.35° W
A Perthshire estate where tradition merges with hi-tech cattle breeding, pedigree Black Galloway, Whitebred Shorthorn, and Scottish Black cattle farm grown organically on a 1,250-acre nature-friendly farming system — with six wind turbines making us massively carbon negative.
Where the high winds sweep the Perthshire green,
And the Ochil Hills rise sharp and clean,
Lies Rossie Ochil, where the history runs
Through centuries of rain and changing suns.
Long before the turbines turned their blades,
The drovers walked these upland glades.
With heavy boots and sticks in hand,
They drove the black cattle across the land.
From northern hills to the Crieff tryst floor,
Through old stone gates and the wild glen's door,
The steady beat of a hundred hooves
Echoed the paths that the great herd chooses.
Now Galloways roam where the drovers stepped,
An ancient promise faithfully kept.
The Whitebred Shorthorn rest on the quiet hill,
Where the spirit of droving is living still.
We farm 1,250 acres of the Ochils organically — no sprays, no shortcuts, no rush. The cattle do the work the land needs: grazing, resting, and returning fertility to the soil. A nature-friendly system that feeds the farm by letting it stay wild at the edges.
§ Life in 1691
A nature-friendly farm, held by the hills that made it.
A breed shaped by the weather it lives in. Black Galloways carry a double coat that sheds the rain and holds the cold at bay, letting them live outside through every season on the rough grazing of the Ochils. Unhurried, hardy, and perfectly suited to this land.
We keep the Aberdeen Angus here to develop the Scottish Black — a new line bred by crossing the Aberdeen Angus with our Black Galloway. The result combines the Angus's celebrated marbling with the Galloway's hardy, hill-adapted constitution: a great foraging fast, grass-finished animal built for the Ochils. The kind of beef that only a patient, natural system can produce.
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The Whitebred Shorthorn is kept here as a crossing breed and pedigree breeding herd — a quiet, maternal line that brings hardiness and milk to the hill. Bred for the uplands and finished on the rough grazing of the Ochils, it carries the spirit of the old droving days, when white cattle walked these glens long before the turbines turned.
We farm 1,250 acres of the Ochils organically — no sprays, no shortcuts, no rush. The cattle do the work the land needs: grazing, resting, and returning fertility to the soil. A nature-friendly system that feeds the farm by letting it stay wild at the edges.
Six wind turbines stand on the estate, generating far more power than we ever use. The surplus goes to the grid, and the farm gives back more than it takes — making Rossie Ochil massively carbon negative, and a net giver to the land it keeps.
§ 03 — The Estate
Rossie Ochil is a working estate — pasture rotated by season, and stone steadings restored by craftsmen who understand the difference between old and historic.
We farm Galloway cattle on the hill, keep the hedgerows for the birds, and let the landscape lead.
The architecture is the landscape's; we have only kept it in good repair.
1,250
Acres of Perthshire
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The farmhouse raised
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Turbines, turning
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Neighbours visible
On the farm — first light
The herd moves at dawn, mist lifting off the pasture as the calves find their feet. A slow walk through the waking farm — the smell of turned earth, the first green after winter, and the Ochils coming alive around you.
On the hill — year-round
Our Black Galloway live in family groups that stay together across the seasons — mothers, daughters, and calves moving as one. Ancient, quiet, and deeply social, they shape the pasture as much as the pasture shapes them — and provide the meat for around 3,000 people a year.
The high ground — all year
Up here you are first to the sunrise and last to the sunset. Rain is gathered from the roof into the tank, the wind brings weather from every quarter, and the silence at dusk is something you carry home with you.
Six turbines — year-round
Six wind turbines generate 4.8 megawatts between them — some 12 million kilowatt-hours a year, enough to power around 3,000 homes. The surplus feeds the grid, making the estate massively carbon negative.
1,250 acres — year-round
The estate's 1,250 acres of multispecies pastures and forests sequester 2,375 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e) per year — the complete annual consumption footprint of roughly 188 UK households.
Our Black Galloway and Aberdeen Angus are raised organically on the Ochils and butchered in season. Meat boxes are limited and released in small batches. Leave your email and we'll write to you the moment one is ready.
