Published February 2025
Story PDF: Heading for the hills: City girl who became a proud farmer
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Blether Together host Sarah Stephen, who has all the gravitas gained from her television work for programmes such as Landward but also the practical knowledge of being married to a farmer, talks Cora through her journey from Glasgow girl to life on a 2,044-hectare hill farm at Muirkirk in Ayr.
Cora, who openly admits she had never so much as stepped foot on a farm until she met her husband David, studied law at Glasgow University. Their romance blossomed, like so many doubtless have over the years, after a chance meeting at the Royal Highland Show.
“At the time, I was doing some PR for Land Rover and was on their stand at the show,” recalls Cora. “I had never been to an agricultural show before and I can remember David walking past and then turning around and coming back to have a chat.”
That was back in 2012 and within a couple of months the two of them were living together, then married in 2014 and with the first of their three children arriving in 2015
