The Artemis Pentland Peaks Challenge is an annual charity walking event that takes place in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh. The routes include Gold (27 miles), Silver (14 miles) and Bronze (10 miles) test every level of fitness with the Gold route including the challenging peaks of Caerketton and Allermuir [...]
Oxford Films came to Swanston Farm to shoot on location with English actor, author and stand-up comedian Alexei Sayle for a documentary in 2022. The Fringe, Fame and Me is the story of how a small Scottish arts festival that began 75 years ago this year became a national institution – a [...]
We had some very special visitors in June 2023! Team Mouat, which is led by Edinburgh-born skipper, Bruce Mouat, were crowned world curling champions in Ottawa earlier this year after defeating their Canadian hosts. Team Mouat also took home the silver medal at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing and they [...]
Thelma and Louise are our 2 oldest Highland Cows (they will soon be 20 years old!) and because they are a bit slower and creakier than the youngsters, we have to trim their feet more often. This is because they don't wear them down as quickly as the younger cows [...]
The team from Powder UK chose Swanston Farm as a location for shooting a range from their Autumn/Winter 2019 Collection. It was a very chilly January day, with Design Director Lisa Beaumont and her team, including make-up artist, stylist and photographer along with model Lauren, wearing the stunning cosy and [...]
The Ultra Tour of Edinburgh is unique - it's an Ultra Run in a city like no other. Rat Race is the UK’s best known adventure sports outfit and the Edinburgh course weaves 57km through streets, alleyways, onto hills, up crags, past monuments, museums, seats of Royalty, Government and up [...]
In June 2019 we had a visit from The Dick Vet Farm Animal Practice, who came out to perform our Highland Cow vet check. A few feet were trimmed, all the horns were checked and were good and some blood samples taken for a study. Some vet students also attended to [...]
During February 2019 we had a very special visit from an extremely talented local dancer; Ellie Ferguson, who was a finalist in the BBC's 'Greatest Dancer'. Ellie came along with her mum and a film crew from Thames TV to conduct some location filming to go towards Ellie's training clips [...]
The Salomon Trail Running Festival came to Swanston Farm for their Edinburgh session on 2nd June 2018, bringing a huge number of runners keen to take part in the various activities over the weekend. Runners were able to enter the 10km and 20km timed races, covering terrain over the Pentland [...]
In early 2018 we welcomed 2 male models Glen Power at SUPA Model Management and Richard Keep at ELITE LONDON, photographer Simon Lipman, stylist Hannah Beck and make-up artist Oscar Alexander to Swanston Farm as part of their trip to Scotland from London, to photograph a range of clothing for South China Morning [...]
