News Archives - Bioregioning Tayside

4 August 20256 August 2025

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…

6 July 20257 July 2025

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…

23 May 202524 May 2025

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…

7 April 20257 April 2025

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…

5 January 20256 January 2025

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…

4 December 20244 December 2024

Help us write a modern manifesto for Tayside’s food system!

With others, we are working to create a local food culture in Tayside, one which recognises the importance of eating produce grown in our communities in ways which are mindful of both people and the planet. We know that it can be hard to get access to fresh, healthy fruit and vegetables and so we…

25 October 202425 October 2024

Our ‘Recipes For Action’ Work receives further support from Scottish Rural Network

Over the winter of 2023/24, we embarked on the first stage of of our work investigating how community-led food growing can be strengthened and developed in Tayside. Empowering this very important part of Tayside’s food system was one of the many recommendations made at the conference ‘Feeding Tayside Through The Climate Crisis’, which took place…

16 April 202419 April 2024

Strengthening & Developing Community-Led Food Growing In Tayside – Recipes For Action

This project, which has resulted in a set of new ‘recipes for action’, investigated how community-led food growing can be strengthened and developed in Tayside. Empowering this very important part of Tayside’s food system was one of the many recommendations made at the conference ‘Feeding Tayside Through The Climate Crisis’, which took place in Dundee…

30 July 20235 September 2023

Riverwoods Investment Readiness Pioneers Award to new River Ericht Catchment Restoration Initiative

The new River Ericht Catchment Restoration Initiative has been confirmed as the second project[1] in Scotland to receive a Riverwoods Investment Readiness Pioneers award. The River Ericht, one of the most important spawning grounds for Atlantic salmon in Europe, is in crisis. Extreme weather caused by climate change, historic and current land management practices and…

1 May 20234 June 2023

Feeding Tayside Through The Climate Crisis: Launch Conference & Future Plans

On March 24th, at Discovery Point in Dundee, a group of around 100 people from across Tayside and beyond, met to discuss the crucial issue of how we feed our communities through the climate crisis. Participants were drawn from across the breadth of the sector, including senior figures in the food and drink industry, politicians,... View More