An explosion of wren scoldings greet me as I enter the bramble thickets, heavy duty clippers tucked away under my oxter. Don’t worry, I coo trying to reassure them, I’ll be alert. Wren like to nest in bramble thickets and it’s been three years since I’ve cut and mulched this […]

Feeling spent and yet truly alive after a week in the woods with little people and not so little people. It was a joy to be joined by parents as well and to work with a variety of amazing local people. Thanks everyone! After 15 years of working with children […]

Once upon a time there was a mountain black mother mountain so shiny and shimmery so pointy and powerful that all who gazed upon her instantly fell in love in that second they felt love upon them For some this meant they would instantly shed a whole skin and walk […]

Spent the morning up here in this burgeoning biodiversity protecting this years oak, hazel and rowan regen – 150 and counting! There’s a bit more of a deer presence on the croft right now, perhaps due to the neighbouring forest being felled and these beauties will def be munched. I […]