Swanston Farm was honoured to welcome talented finalist of Channel 4's 'The Piano' for filming, 10 year old Sum. Sum and his family visited Swanston Farm and our Highland Cows on a chilly winter's morning for some filming ahead of the final episode of Series 2. It was a sparkling, [...]
LS Productions took over the hills here at Swanston Farm for a day, filming for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. An early start saw the most stunning of sunrises and we were blessed with a sunny September day. You can see the finished product here
Matt Baker took his Mum Janice and Dad Mike on a special Christmas trip to Edinburgh and popped up to visit us here at Swanston Farm! Along with a wonderful visit to the Royal Yacht Britannia and the Kinloch Anderson Kilts and Highland Dress hub, the family enjoyed a close-up [...]
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. 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 crucible where [...]
Team Mouat, which is led by Edinburgh-born skipper, Bruce Mouat, were crowned 2023 world curling champions in Ottawa after defeating their Canadian hosts. Team Mouat also took home the silver medal at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing and they came along to have a photoshoot at Swanston Farm. Bruce, Hammy, [...]
The Ultra Tour of Edinburgh is unique - it's an Ultra Run in a city like no other. Rat Race Adventures 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 [...]
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 shown on the [...]
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 [...]
VisitScotland and American film company 'Fifty Films' spent the morning at Swanston Farm, filming their young Millenials saying hello to our Highland Cattle, as part of their trip around Scotland. You can watch the completed video here: 'Come Along with VisitScotland' You can also read more about the campaign on [...]
