GREEN GROW MY GRASSES

Bryce prides himself on organic cow feed, reusable milk bottles and electric transport delivery

- DAN VEVERS

A PIONEERING eco-conscious farmer who works the same land Rabbie Burns once did has saved his business by going green.

Dad-of-four Bryce Cunningham told how his family nearly lost it all eight years ago.

But now the 36-year-old, who runs Mossgiel Farm near Mauchline in Ayrshire, has been hailed for his groundbreaking environmental efforts.

They include becoming the first dairy farm in Britain to eliminate single-use plastics as well as switching to electric delivery vans and heating his estate with biomass.

He revealed he'd had no intention of running the dairy farm back in 2013.

He was working at car giant Mercedes Benz when triple tragedies struck the family.

His dad and grandfather who Bryce called Papa - were both diagnosed with terminal illnesses in quick succession, leading him to move back to Mossgiel. The pair sadly passed away around a year apart.