Posted on July 18, 2018
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Reforesting Scotland Land Revival Tour – Cairngorms, 28th-29th of June I wasn’t sure what to expect from the Reforesting Scotland Land Revival Tour, but I knew it would be an interesting experience whatever happened. As you will know, if you’ve been following this blog,… Continue Reading “Reforesting Scotland Land Revival Tour”
Category: Conservation, Crofting, Deer, Forestry, Land and Wildlife Management, UncategorizedTags: Cairngorms, Cattle, CNPA, Collaboration, Community, Croft, Crofting, Deer, Deer Management, Deer stalking, Environment, Farming, Flerd, Forestry, GIS, Glenfeshie, High Nature Value farming, Highland Cattle, Hunting, Land, Mob Grazing, Montane Scrub, Mountain Hares, Native Breeds, Native Woodland, Nature, Peatland, Public Access, Reforesting, Rewilding, Riparian, River Management, Roe Deer, Rural, Scotland, Sheep, Soil Regeneration, Tourism, Training, Trees, Uplands, Wild, Wildland, Wildlife, Wildlife Management, Woodland, Woodland Pasture
Posted on May 24, 2018
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The 2018 North Highland College exchange trip to Hedmark University campus at Evenstad, Norway, took place at an interesting time; with discussions around land use, rewilding, and wildlife management coming into public awareness more than they have for a long time… From the start… Continue Reading “A Brief Foray to Norway”
Category: Conservation, Food, Forestry, Land and Wildlife Management, Nature, TravelTags: Antlers, Bear, Beaver, Black Grouse, Campfire, Capercaillie, Common Sense, Community, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Cooking, Crofting, Culling, Culture, Ecology, Education, Elk, Environment, Evenstad, Farming, Fisheries, Fishing, Folklore, Forest Management, Forestry, Fox, Game, Grouse, Hedmark, History, Hunting, Jutulhogget Naturreservat, Keystone Species, Land management, Landscape Scale, Lynx, Mitigation, Moose, Nature, North Highland College, Norway, Outdoors, PhD, Pine Marten, Predation, Predators, River Management, Rivers, Road Safety, Roadkill, Scotland, Skogmuseet, Subsistence Hunting, Travel, Wildlife, Wildlife Management, Wolf, Wolverine, Woodland, Woodland Grouse, Woods
Posted on May 14, 2015
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I wrote this piece on High Nature Value farming in August 2013. It was originally written to go in The Northern Times but never went to print. I did it for the RSPB hence the emphasis on them. You can find further information on the High Nature Value Farming website.… Continue Reading “High Nature Value Farming in Durness”
Category: Conservation, Crofting, FarmingTags: Aberdeen Angus, Balnakeil, Bird watching, Cheviots, Community, Conservation, Corncrakes, Croft, Crofter, Crofting, Discussion, Diversification, Durness, Ecology, Environment, Farming, Farmland waders, Great-yellow bumblebee, Habitat, Habitat management, Heritage, High Nature Value farming, Highland Cattle, Highlands, HNV, HNV farming, Holyrood, Land use, Less Favoured Areas, LFASS, Lifestyle, RSPB, RSPB Scotland, Rural, Rural Priorities, Scottish Government, Sheep, SRDP, Sutherland
Posted on May 9, 2015
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Day 3: Our final day arrived and we headed over to Glencanisp, stag spotting as we went! We arrived at Glencanisp Lodge as the sun came out, couldn’t have asked for better, more inspiring weather for our last day! This final day saw us… Continue Reading “Young Crofters 20:20 Gathering 2015 (Pt. 3) and Further Progress”
Category: CroftingTags: Assynt, Community, Croft, Crofter, Crofting, Crofting Commission, Cross Party Group, Debate, Discussion, Farming, Glencanisp Lodge, Heritage, Highlands, Holyrood, Infrastructure, Jobs, Lobbying, SCF Young Crofters, Scotland, Scottish Crofting Federation, Scottish Government, Support, YC20:20
Posted on May 9, 2015
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Day 2: The next day saw a fresh set of workshops and talks. We kicked off with a talk by Ronnie Eunson, a crofter from Shetland specialising in breeding Shetland Cattle. This was a very engaging talk following Ronnie’s journey from keeping Texel’s and… Continue Reading “Young Crofters 20:20 Gathering 2015 (Pt.2)”
Category: CroftingTags: Assynt, Community, Conservation, Corncrakes, Croft, Crofter, Crofting, Debate, Discussion, Diversification, Durness, Farming, Glencanisp Lodge, Great-yellow bumblebee, Heritage, High Nature Value farming, Highland Cattle, Highlands, HNV farming, Kylesku, Land use, Machair, Pigs, RSPB, RSPB Scotland, Scotland, Scottish Crofting Federation, Shetland, Shetland cattle, Stewardship, Tamworth, Uist
Posted on May 9, 2015
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Right, I should have got my act together literally months ago and written about this after it happened, however, hindsight is a wonderful thing and I’m writing about it now so we’re all good. I’ve split this summary into three separate posts. Back in… Continue Reading “Young Crofters 20:20 Gathering 2015 (Pt.1)”
Category: CroftingTags: Assynt, Community, Croft, Crofter, Crofting, Crofting Commission, Discussion, Farming, Glencanisp Lodge, Heritage, Highlands, Imbewu Scotland, Inchnadamph, Infrastructure, Land use, Lifestyle, Lochinver, Scotland, Scottish Crofting Federation, Small holding, SNH, YC20:20, Young Crofters
Posted on May 6, 2015
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I haven’t posted anything for ages (December, how embarrassing), so I thought I’d just give a wee update of what I’ve been up to. January: An interesting way to start the year, the perks included beating on my friends shoot and coming home with a… Continue Reading “A Start of the Year Update”
Category: Conservation, Crofting, Land and Wildlife Management, NatureTags: Assynt, Beltane, Bird watching, Buzzards, Clay shooting, Crofting, Farming, Farmland waders, Glencanisp Lodge, Godwit, Highlands, Peregrines, Raptors, Scotland, Scottish Crofting Federation, Shooting, Snipe, Snow, Surveying, Update, Waders, Walking, Whooper Swans, YC20:20, Young Crofters
Wayfaring and Wandering 