The Spring 2024 issue of Reforesting Scotland takes a look at ‘Agroforestry’, with theme articles on climate ready farming, livestock integration with woodlands in Scotland, aspen agroforestry, agroforestry and crofting, tree hay, ramial wood chip and woolly pigs. Beasts of the Forest follows the theme with a look at how Read more…
Caird Hall, Dundee – Saturday 20th April 2024 Hearing from Hutters Whether you are just curious about hutting, making serious plans or already a seasoned hutter, we’d like to invite you to the 2024 Hutters Rally. The Rally is a full day of talks, workshops and discussions on all aspects Read more…
The 2023 Reforesting Scotland Gathering has now been finalized. We’ll be filling in one of the big gaps on the map of previous Gatherings, with our first ever trip to the Great Glen. The venue will be Invergarry and the dates will be Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th September – Read more…
“Dendritic (or tree-shaped) patterns can be found throughout nature on every scale, from the veins of a leaf, to the drainage system of a river, to the vascular system of our lungs or the branching dendrites in our brain. Some patterns are hierarchical, like the branches of a tree leading Read more…
The Scottish Government is currently consulting on a matter of key importance in Scotland: land reform. It is widely recognised that Scotland has the most concentrated pattern of land ownership in Scotland and that this can lead to poor land management and monopoly control of land in some areas. The Read more…
Contact with nature has lots of benefits for both physical and mental health, so wouldn’t it be good if you could go to your doctor, and instead of (or as well as) giving you a bottle of pills, they could prescribe you a good dose of nature? Well, depending on Read more…
Across much of Europe, weekends and holidays see thousands of families head out to their hytte, hydda, cabaña or dacha – in other words, their hut – to recharge their batteries and spend time in nature without the distractions of city life. There used to be a hutting tradition in Read more…
https://www.parliament.scot/GettingInvolved/Petitions/beaver Since being acknowledged as a native species last year, one fifth of Scotland’s beavers have been shot under licence. Each beaver killed is a wasted chance to move it to a new area where they are still extinct, to allow them to work their habitat-creating magic in more parts Read more…
Kicking off a series of blogs from the Directors of Reforesting Scotland, Nicola Hume checks out the new generation of non-plastic tree tubes and asks: do they work? To read as a pdf, click here. According to legend, Sir Ewan Cameron of Lochiel shot the last wolf in Scotland in Read more…
Welcome to the Spring 2020 issue of Reforesting Scotland, which looks at Climate Change. As we completed this issue, the nation entered week 3 of coronavirus lockdown and we have no idea when it will be able to be physically printed. As a result, we have decided to make a digital version available free to everyone in the meantime.