Bioregioning Tayside Articles

Feeling For The Foundation Part 2: How our Bioregional Financing Facility could bridge the gap between regenerative ambition and investable reality.

In Part One of this two part update on our Bioregional Financing Facility work, we explored the systemic challenges facing regenerative finance in the Tay Bioregion and why a Bioregional Financing Facility (BFF) is needed to bridge the gap between regenerative ambition and investable reality. In this second part, we turn to the question at the…

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New Map of the Tay Bioregion

Over the last couple of months we have been working with map maker Dan Harris on this beautiful new map of the Tay Bioregion. We wanted to frame the region through its watery landscapes, given that the Bioregion is based on the River Tay Catchment System and in Dan’s map you can see all the…

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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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