Great advice from Fleecewife and MGWoM
Many of us were not born into this, so yes you absolutely can do it
. 20 years ago I was working in telecommunications, had pet dogs and cats but no other animals and hadn’t ever eaten anything I’d grown myself.
One of the best things I did was join WWOOF and go and work on organic holdings with people who knew what they were doing
. Great fun, and priceless experience
. I still draw on those experiences now, and still maintain some of the contacts I made then. There are loads of WWOOF hosts in Scotland; some want WWOOFers for at least a week, some only want people with experience, but there will be some happy to take beginners, and possibly some able to offer weekends if you aren’t able to do full weeks. (There are certainly places in England do ‘WWOOFing Weekends’, I’m not as familiar with the Scottish hosts.)
Have fun!