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 […]

We’ve got a lot of rushes on the croft hill. This hardy plant is part and parcel of succession after clearfell. Like many elements we’ve grown to appreciate the rushes for their role in soil stabilisation after clearfell, for the habitat they provide for ground nesting birds and other small […]

cannae wait tae get these beauties in the earth the morra.

Just cut this stunning birch some slack after 5 years of being protected by a thicket of bramble. The bramble is blooming. It’s December. #workwithnature #thesolutioniswithintheproblem

first frost, thread moss cladonia lichen warm cockles

Just spent a luscious morning wandering around this bit of hill. 140 hazel, oak and rowan trees protected here with around the same amount of birch and willow unprotected, toughing it out on their own against the deer. Some have been planted by jay, squirrel, wind blown seed and some […]

whit kith got gobbled while rapt in the glamour of dawn a saw a fox stock-still kisser tae the sun she kens

Yesterday I walked the transect line and as happened before the land took me in hand. Being taken in hand happens often, especially when I set out with the intention to gather ‘measuring information’ about how the croft land is changing from felled sitka spruce plantation. I start off taking […]