Article: Saved by a garlic clove

When Gilli Allingham spent ski seasons as a cook in a Swiss chalet, she would dream of returning to the UK and becoming a farmer's wife - stone farmhouse, rolling countryside, raising a family around the Aga, the whole rural idyll.

But when she married Scots farmer Glen Allingham she discovered a harsher side to the farming life. Tyrannical weather, foot-and- mouth, falling EU subsidies - farm incomes have plummeted over the last decade. With no upturn in sight, Allingham decided the time had come for the family potato seed farm to diversify.

Rejecting traditional options such as bed and breakfast or cream teas, Allingham reinvented herself as Scotland's only commercial garlic farmer. The ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

 
 
Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) A FREE trial gives you access to over 80 million articles! Access over 6,500 publications with a FREE trial!