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Article: Saved by a garlic clove
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- June 5, 2003
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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 ...