Meet the team: Kajedo Wanderer

Meet the team: Kajedo Wanderer

Land manager Kajedo Wanderer likes to spend his days in church – which for him is the woods. He has the distinction of being the only person employed by FHT to work directly on the land. ‘And I love my work,’ he adds. My professional background is as a forester in...

Caring for Lichens in our Local Environment

Report on Translocation Experiments at Findhorn What follows is an important report by local lichenologist Heather Paul on experiments to mitigate the effects of development at the Park Ecovillage Findhorn involving translocation (physical movement from the...
News from the Land

News from the Land

Much has happened on the land since I last wrote for our newsletter. Our settlement keeps expanding – a new, exciting stage of building more homes, the Duneridge project – has just begun. Most of the more dramatic changes have been written about by those more directly...
Meet the team: Laura Shreenan

Meet the team: Laura Shreenan

A big part of the Hinterland Trust’s work is our Green Burial Ground in Wilkies Wood, right next to the Park, and Laura is a key person in the Green Burials team. The site was created when a severe storm felled a large area of trees, and now it’s a space for around...
Lichen spotting – at 50 miles

Lichen spotting – at 50 miles

Rare lichens, remote research and AI habitat mapping – how new technologies are making conservation more efficient. Ecologist James Bunyan is closely examining a small patch of lichen on the dunes just outside Findhorn. That’s remarkable for two reasons: first, that...
Chair’s Report – Winter/ Spring 2025

Chair’s Report – Winter/ Spring 2025

It seems a long time since our winter gathering event at the Woodland Shelter, when a good crowd coalesced around the fire collecting Christmas trees, and the other event around that time, when Santa Claus was once again installed in the Conservation Hub as part of...
Chair’s Report – Autumn/Winter 2024

Chair’s Report – Autumn/Winter 2024

Autumn on the land has been beautiful with the seasonal change of colours and fungi making their presence known with their fruiting bodies once again present to our eyes – the natural world has been busy and so have the FHT human team with so much going on.  ...
CWA Conference Networking Opportunity 

CWA Conference Networking Opportunity 

At the beginning of October I was delighted to attend the annual Community Woodland Association conference in Inverness representing the Hinterland with Jonathan. The CWA (if, like me, you didn’t already know) promotes, supports and celebrates community woodlands...