As part of the Findhorn Hinterland Trust’s work to identify the biological diversity that occurs on the 35 hectares of land that we are responsible for managing, I commissioned a spider survey of the site, which took place between the end of April 2019 and the end of August 2022. The survey was carried out […]
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 […]
Early February: Henry Frosbooke has just finished his offering of ‘Drum baths’ at the Woodland Shelter and is setting up for his part in our fundraising event in the Universal Hall tonight. With Alan’s amazing photographs, Carolina’s singing and more, we are trying to raise funds for a wee wood-stove for the ‘Shepherd’s Hut’ – […]
Last Spring it was such a great honour to be finally visiting the Findhorn Ecovillage for the first time. I had read ‘The Magic of Findhorn’ as an avid teenager seeking affirmation of my spiritual connection to the land, and here I was 44 years later being shown round the gardens by Jonathan Caddy, present […]
An Interview with David Hammond To start with, can you tell us something of what brought you to Findhorn? The driving force was that my family was in London and looking for a healthier place to live and bring up a child, somewhere with clean air and good water, with like-minded people. We’d been visiting […]
Having joined the Findhorn Hinterland Green Burials Team in 2021 I have now, so far, been directly involved in nine funerals in Wilkies Woods. I felt I wanted to write a little about some of this experience with you by sharing something about my friend, John Wragg, whom we buried on Friday 13th January 2023. […]
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 […]
A Force for Repairing the ‘Metabolic Rift with Nature. Since university, I have held the opinion that the nature/human dichotomy is the fundamental crux of the climate and ecological crisis and our failure to address this false separation will only escalate such crises further. This understanding emanated from my discovery of Edward Wilson’s work on […]
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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...)
Greetings from the pony field!
With April came spring, the most significant change of season in the pony year: the first spring grass, the end of winter grazing, and a tide of hair flooding out from the field as the woolly winter coat comes off and is replaced by the sleeker and sometimes darker summer coat (prime nest building material!) […]