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
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
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
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
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
Our fourth Learning Journey event focused on the role of Participatory Science in ecosystem restoration. Participatory Sciences, including Civic Science, Citizen Science and Community Science involve communities co-producing new knowledge about the places where they live and work. This community and participatory process, which can involve collecting place-based ecological and physical data alongside social and cultural information... View More
We had our very first Meet Up in October 2021 with four amazing contributors from the USA, Austria, Sweden and Scotland. First up was Glenn Page from Sustainamatrix in Maine in the USA. Glenn has 30 years of experience building bioregional and ecosystem stewardship across the world. He led an amazing International Bioregional Learning Workshop that we joined... View More
Earthworks offers courses, group programmes and individual therapy for resilience and recovery based in nature connection. In this post, Bioregioning Tayside talked with Stephanie Gooding to find out more about their story. Can you talk a bit about yourself, your project, and the journey you have been on to get to this point? I’m a... View More
Campy Growers is based in Dundee and made up of an eclectic group bound by a desire to grow food locally for nutrition, mental health, educational, community and climate mitigation benefits. In this post, Bioregioning Tayside talked with Kate Treharne to hear more about their story. Can you talk a bit about yourself, your project,... View More
