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Draft storyAt the distillery and the farm

Hamish’s second breakfast

Distillery leftovers, farm feed and Hamish’s grass: each has its own place.

A draft: the words and pictures are waiting for an educator’s review.

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The story

Eddie talks with Fiona on the public forecourt outside the distillery.

At the distillery, Eddie asked Fiona what happened to all the useful things left over after the grain was used.

Dougal shows Fiona a sealed sample of grain outside the closed distillery yard.

Dougal showed Fiona a sealed grain sample. He explained that some of it can go, with proper care, to farms as an animal feed ingredient.

Dougal: “The grain has done one job. Let’s see which useful job comes next.”

At the farm, Fiona explains a sealed sample to Eddie outside a row of separate closed storage compartments.

Back at the farm, Fiona told Eddie that this feed ingredient is not the same as kitchen scraps, and not the same as fertiliser either.

For grown-ups: The feed ingredient is a suitable product supplied and managed by professionals. It is kept separate from household kitchen scraps and from fertiliser. The closed compartments in the picture are not labelled, and their colours do not tell you what is inside.

Inside the farm’s feed store, Fiona checks that the latch on a closed feed bin is shut tight.

In the feed store, Fiona checked that the feed bin was closed properly. Storing and giving feed is a grown-up farm job.

For grown-ups: Storing and giving animal feed is managed by the farm’s professionals. This is not something to try at home.

Hamish the cow chews grass in a field on his own.

Out in the field, Hamish was not bothered about any of it. He had his favourite meal already: grass.

For grown-ups: Hamish’s thought: grass.

Fiona talks with Dougal and Eddie outside the closed distillery yard.

Fiona summed it up for Dougal and Eddie. Each kind of leftover has its own right place to go.

Fiona: “Hamish gets the right feed, Eddie. A useful leftover still needs the right destination.”

Draft, 20 October 2026. The words and pictures are not yet reviewed by an educator. The story follows the outline in our story guide.

The real-life bit

Some leftovers from making things with grain can become a farm feed ingredient, but only when they are suitable and supplied and managed by professionals. That is different from household kitchen scraps and from fertiliser, so this is not an instruction to feed anything to animals at home; follow your council’s own rules for food waste. Gullbrae is made up. Your council’s own rules are the ones to follow.

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