"Walston Braehead is a hill farm 1000 ft. above sea level, set at the south end of the Pentland Hills (about 30 miles south of Edinburgh), an area where cheese making was common up to 1939. Most of this cheese was originally made from ewes' milk, and old records refer to both blue ewes' cheese and hard white ewes' cheese.
Humphery Errington’s daughter, Selina Cairns and her husband Andrew, have taken over this famous cheese making business and they are looking to expand the farm. The new cheese Corra Linn which is a hard ewes milk cheese and has already proved to be a extremely popular cheese, having sold all stock as soon as it was matured and ready. Selina is looking at producing a unique Scottish blue goats cheese which could provide a niche in the market that is rarely been looked into.
Organic pigs have also been introduced to the farm which provide local butchers with unique tasting sausages including black pudding, herbs, honey or just pork. Local catering companies also use these organic pigs for hog roasts for weddings and other booked celebrations.
Humphrey has been farming for 25 years, working on 300 acres on the western edge of the Pentland Hills near Biggar. By way of diversification, he looked seriously at cheese-making in the early 1980s, with the famous Lanark Blue being launched in 1985. His philosophy is that all the cheeses and other products they now make would have been traditional to this area of Scotland.
Sheep milking has started as well as lambing.