Our bi-annual members journal
Autumn/Winter 2014: ‘Restoring the Land and the People’ Looking back – and forward – in our 50th issue. Articles include:Bernard Planterose: From wet desert to woodland economy.George Monbiot: Rewilding.Andy Wightman: My journey with Reforesting Scotland.Alan Watson Featherstone: Trees for Life.Viv Halcrow: Coigach-Assynt Living LandscapeJustin Kendrick: Reclaiming the land.Alan Carter: Participation Read more…
Spring/Summer 2014: ‘Small Is Possible’ We always knew it, now here’s the proof! Articles include: Letter from a forest garden: how Graham Bell grows a tonne of food, literally, in his garden. Woodland crofts: Jamie McIntyre on how local intensive management can bring additional benefits, which may be difficult to Read more…
Autumn/Winter 2013: ‘Fun in the forest’ There are so many ways to engage with forests! Articles include: The Woodland Building Site – families creating a building for their local woodland kindergarten Donkeys in the Forest– for children’s birthday parties Perthshire’s Hazel Coppice Project Wood, Wind and Sunny Govan – Alastair Read more…
Spring/Summer 2013: ‘Coping with catastrophe’ The theme for this issue highlights the Great Storm of 2012 and the spread of diseases like Chalara fraxinea (ash die-back), but also celebrates the creative responses of communities and individuals to those disasters. Articles include: Storms: impacts in Edinburgh, Falkland, Aberdeen Tree diseases: Phytophthera, Read more…
Autumn/Winter 2012: ‘The living forest’ The theme for this issue ties in with the annual Reforesting Scotland Gathering in Strathspey in early October 2012. Articles include: Forest life in Abernethy In conversation… Forests present and future Balancing act at Mar Lodge Forests, people, place in Cairngorms National Park More than Read more…
Spring/Summer 2012: Co-operative living – a low impact choice? Forty years at Laurieston Hall Acorn, a new crofting co-op for Argyll A simple woodland life at Tinker’s Bubble Together on the land at Talamh Thousand Huts campaign report and news of Big Tent Festival 2012 Food for thought: The Nourish Read more…
Autumn/Winter 2011-12: Reforestation, regeneration and renewal First Shoots: regeneration, renewal and reforestation by Alan Carter Renewing the Kelvin Valley Aspen apothecary – using aspen for remediation Greening the Central Belt Revitalising a neighbourhood in Aberdeen To tree or not to tree – natural regeneration of oil-shale bings Gardening from the Read more…
Spring/Summer 2011: Woodland shelter First shoots: Scotland’s missing huts From one to a thousand – a personal perspective Hut life – the stories of three communities – Carbeth, Lunga and Soonhope from the perspective of a hutter, a landowner and a visitor RS members’ debate… hutting Me and my hut Read more…
Autumn/Winter 2010: ‘Woodlands and water‘ First Shoots: A fish swam through it – Les Bates, forest gardener and long-term Reforesting Scotland member, introducing this year’s Annual Gathering Restoring riparian woodland Aliens land in Loch Ness – invasive plants in riparian woodlands Refertilising Scotland – Peter Cunningham, biologist at Wester Ross Read more…