The Gate Church Carbon Saving Project is working with their local community to reduce food and household waste, help people to develop new skills and lower their carbon footprints and improve the reduce the energy consumption of their own organisation by installing energy efficiency measures to their community owned buildings. Their Community Fridge is a communal place... View More
Cairngorms Connect is a partnership of neighbouring land managers, committed to a bold and ambitious 200-year vision to enhance habitats, species and ecological processes across a vast area within the Cairngorms National Park. In this post, Martha Smart from Bioregioning Tayside spoke to Tors Hamilton to find out more about their story. Martha Hello Tors... View More
Antonia Ineson has leased two acres of land from South West Fullerton Farm since 2007. Her three organic polytunnels house salads and summer veg: beans, squashes, garlic and interesting leaves like mizuna and tatsoi. Weekly emails let customers know the current harvest – sign up via her website, place your order and collect it from... View More
The River South Esk is home to wonderful wildlife. The rivers in the catchment are a Special Area of Conservation because of their Atlantic salmon and freshwater pearl mussel. There's a National Nature Reserve near its source, a Special Protection Area for birds near its mouth, and ten Sites of Special Scientific Interest scattered throughout the area.... View More
'The Field' in Dunkeld is a place to grow vegetables by the community, for the community.They grow along organic principles and supply the village. In this post, Martha Smart from Bioregioning Tayside spoke with David Bee to find out more about their story. Martha Welcome! Tell me about yourself David and what’s going on at the... View More
Kinclune Estate and Organic Farm are an 1100 acre sustainable Organic mixed farm in Angus. They breed organic pure-bred Aberdeen Angus and Limousin cross cattle and maintain a small Organic sheep herd. They also breed, produce and show native Highland Ponies. In this post, Clare Cooper from Bioregioning Tayside spoke with Dr Aylwin Pillai and... View More
The MAXwell Centre The MAXwell is a community centre and garden based in the heart of Dundee’s Coldside. They are committed to improving the quality of life for the local community and to combatting social exclusion, poverty, disadvantage, and discrimination. The centre provides a welcoming and empowering environment, open to everyone, to socialize, access information... View More
Bamff Wildland Bamff is an upland farm on the edge of the Scottish Highlands owned by the Ramsay family. From the 1980s, they have been doing pioneering environmental restoration including, since 2002, the successful re-introduction of beavers. They are now re-wilding over 450 acres, in the style of the renowned Knepp Wildland in Sussex. 12 fields,... View More
Across Tayside, there people who are already acting in bioregional ways to bring human and the biotic communities back into a healthy, balanced co-existence with each other. In this blog post, Bioregioning Tayside caught up with one of them, Angler and Ecologist Duncan Pepper, to find out more about his story. Can you tell us where... View More
This South Esk Catchment is of immense value to a variety of users from the local community, to businesses, and tourism providers. It is a source of drinking water, irrigation for crops, watering for livestock, a valuable habitat for wildlife, and acts as a basis for tourism, recreation and salmon fishing. In fact it is a... View More
