cut and mulch in varying degrees on croft 1 – the fruit trees and fruit bushes are coming on a treat! tending this parcel of land is a great joy. brambles cut to make way for tatties while the apple trees grow, cutting the new wild raspberry and fireweed shoots […]

lots of wealths being increased in this journey of putting up around 500m of deer fencing… this weekend I met an amazing widswummin fae Kintyre who told me that her other half is coring what woucl be 7 thousand year old hazel stools…first my chest, heart, stomach, brain and very […]

part of a larger conversation on Our Changing World, talking about woodland crofting, community owndership, the grief of white supremacist, capitalist, extractavist patriarchy and my hopes for communities to dig in and learn new ways to work together and be inclusive. https://reforestingscotland.org/journal-68-our-changing-world/

As this place regenerates after the spruce, dandelions have slowly made their way back on to the croft. We are nested within the community forest and edged by a path network valued daily by dog walkers, cyclists, children, hedgehogs, an occasional otter, deer, squirrels, mice, voles, a few local cats, […]

A blissful half hour walking the fence line with the hens in the forest garden (it only takes one deer!). It’s an area 0.3h of the whole 3.85h croft land and full of fruit trees and bushes. The alder thicket seems to have grown by magic! The only thing flowing […]