Author: Clare Cooper

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Reimagining Finance To Regenerate Our Planet: Interview with Rosa Brand, co-designer of Bioregioning Tayside’s new Bioregional Financing Facility

Bioregioning Tayside’s latest and most ambitious project to date has been to begin building Scotland’s first Bioregional Financing Facility (BFF). The team is now expanding thanks to funding from the Systemic Climate Action Collaborative and we are delighted to welcome Rosa Brand. Read our interview with Rosa below to find out more! Rosa in the…

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Piloting Hyper-Local Food PLans

Last month we received news from the Scottish Rural Network confirming that they will support us for a fourth time to pilot Hyper-Local Food Plans in Tayside. This project builds on our work on kickstarting the conversation around ‘Feeding Tayside Through The Climate Crisis in 2023, on strengthening and developing Community-Led Food Growing in Tayside…

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Welcoming Jim Mackintosh as Bioregioning Tayside’s Makar

Bioregioning Tayside is proud to welcome poet Jim Mackintosh as their Makar. The contemporary Bioregioning movement has strong connections to this ‘vital truth’ through the American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder, who played a pivotal role in the development and articulation of Bioregioning in the 1970’s and 1980’s through his promotion of a deep ecological…

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Three New Story Maps About Our Projects

We’ve just published three new StoryMaps about our projects. The River Ericht Catchment Restoration Initiative (RECRI) StoryMap shares the work we have been doing on baselining the human and biotic communities of this important sub catchment in the River Tay system – in preparation for the RECRI partnership’s planned catchment-wide regeneration initiative. Mapping Community-Led Growing…

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Reimagining Finance To Regenerate Our Planet: Interview with Leon Seefeld, lead architect of Bioregioning Tayside’s planned new Bioregional Financing Facility

Bioregioning Tayside’s latest and most ambitious project to date has been to begin working with Leon Seefeld of Dark Matter Labs to build Scotland’s first Bioregional Financing Facility. Read our interview with Leon below to find out more! Leon Seefeld in the Austrian Alps Tell us about yourself, Leon… I grew up on the countryside…

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The Accidental Smallholder

About us The Accidental Smallholder began, well, by accident. I suppose I am “The Accidental Smallholder”, since it’s become my business, but there are many other people who have helped over the years, and continue to help. The Accidental Smallholder website was established in 2003 as a web-log for our smallholding, with the aim of…

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WeeCAIR Medical Garden

The WeeCAIR Medicinal Garden Where do medicines come from? Many medicines that we use today come from the active ingredients found in plants that would have been used in traditional herbal remedies. The well-known painkiller aspirin comes from willow bark, and artemisinins, a malaria treatment, comes from sweet wormwood. We have built a public garden…

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