News Archives - Bioregioning Tayside

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

22 October 20229 November 2022

Bioregioning Tayside Learning Journey 2022: Can Tayside Become A Climate Action Sweet Spot?

We completed our 2022 Learning Journey ‘Change The Frame, Change The Story’ with a day co-hosted with Sustainable Kirriemuir and Dundee’s Botanic Gardens and a hugely ambitious question: Can Tayside Become A Climate Action Sweet Spot? Honey Bee on Quince, photo wikimedia commons Inspired by the work of Dr Avit Bhowmik, Assistant Professor of Risk... View More

16 October 202224 October 2022

Bioregioning Tayside Learning Journey 2022: What Will Be On My Plate In 2042?

Our first Learning Journey event focused on food, where we took a day long journey to find out new answers to the question ‘What will Be On My Plate in 2042?’. We began our day at the Upper Dysart Farm, a family farm specialising in potato growing on the east coast of Angus, then travelled... View More

4 October 202229 November 2022

Bioregioning Tayside Learning Journey 2022: What Will I Do When The Waters Rise?

Our second Learning Journey event focused on flooding, which, in the Tayside Bioregion is becoming more frequent as a result of the extreme weather caused by global heating and having serious impacts on both human and biotic communities . We chose to focus on the small town of Alyth in eastern Perthshire as an exemplar... View More

30 September 202226 October 2022

Bioregioning Tayside Learning Journey 2022: Can Tourism Help Tayside #RaceToZero?

Our third Learning Journey event focused on tourism, which in common with all of Scotland and many other parts of the world plays a key role in the economy of Tayside. Tourism is evolving fast. COVID-19, the climate and biodiversity crises and new major geopolitical instability is changing how people travel, where to and why;... View More