Feb 2023 – Feb 2024 Note: The work party focus may change due to different priorities arising, the weather and the people who turn up. Newsletter distribution dates are indicative. Regular bee inspections from April to August– all welcome with protective equipment provided. Date Event 28 Feb Brash Clearance and preparing ground in Woods- 9.30 […]
On the 24th of January the temperature was up at 11C in the middle of the day which got us thinking about the FHT Apiary and our bees so off went Martin and John to inspect followed by a meeting to scheme about the bee focused delights and opportunities that might be available to us […]
Winter can be a quieter, more inward season but in terms of the FHT it has been a most active and productive time. We organised and put on a couple of gatherings at the Universal Hall – the Biodiversity Exhibition Event in November which gave an opportunity for trustee Alan Watson Featherstone to showcase and […]
The FHT has been active once again in various ways this season both on the land and within our community. Tools and considerable volunteer time has been spent helping with the site preparations for the new sanctuary rebuild – thank you to all those that took part in joining with other Park Ecovillage Findhorn community […]
So many people have come up to me to say how much they enjoyed this event that took place in the Green Burial space in Wilkies Wood on the 18th of June. For some it was the ceilidh dancing under the marquee, which was the first bigger event like this for over two years. For […]
I was away for two months this summer during the months of July and August circumnavigating the British Isles in a yacht, communing with the sea and enjoying an amazing rain free adventure! Before I took off though the time was jammed packed with FHT activities. Right at the beginning of June there was a […]
One of our supporters Annette has enjoyed a few programmes with the Findhorn Foundation. She has a property in Berlin and a partially renovated house and meadows some 20 km off the Baltic Sea. Annette would like to open her two homes to members / volunteers of the Hinterland Trust if you like the idea […]
Spring energy, longer days and milder weather has helped inspire more people to be out on the land and much activity has been happening to do with the FHT some of which you will find documented in other articles in this newsletter. It is left for me to fill in the gaps and also give […]
Last season finished with a very satisfactory honey harvest. Preparations for the coming season began in the autumn with treating all the hives for varroa mite. This is a small, crab like creature under 1mm across but to a bee it is enormous. It latches on to the bees and sucks out its juices and […]
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The Findhorn Hinterland Trust (FHT) is a charity (SC045806) set up as a SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation) in July 2015 and as such is regulated by OSCR (Office of Scottish Charities Register). (more...)
Chair’s Round Up – Spring 2023
Spring is with us and although there are longer days of light and some sunshine, many days have been cooler than normal so far. The bees in our apiary have been having a difficult time with this with the result that we have lost four out of the eleven hives due to starvation. Let’s trust […]