by Alan Watson Featherstone | Feb 23, 2024 | News
by Kajedo Wanderer | Nov 26, 2023 | News
‘Be still, and listen…’ (Eileen Caddy) While the rest of the world is warming up at an alarming rate, here in the North of Scotland we’ve had a cool summer and an unusually wet and windy autumn. And now the autumn colours paint the landscapes in various shades of...
by Michael Sharp | Nov 25, 2023 | News
To walk among the sand dunes at Findhorn is to walk in the footsteps of a Mesolithic hunter–gatherer, a Neolithic farmer with axe in hand, a Bronze Age herds-woman, perhaps an Iron Age child, and a soldier training for the D-day landing. This is not immediately...
by Sean Reed | Nov 25, 2023 | Conservation, Ecology & Conservation, News
The Project is moving apace, with a major focus on exploring some potential sources of funding. We are excited to report that the Hinterland Trust is discussing forming a partnership with our neighbour, the Findhorn Dunes Trust, to apply for a grant scheme. We...
by Jonathan Caddy | Nov 25, 2023 | News
The tail end of the year has been a mixture of blue sky days, wind and wet as the sounds of the thousands of geese returning to the Bay are heard. The work of the trust proceeds from strength to strength with some new projects and possibilities raising their heads...
by Alan Watson Featherstone | Nov 25, 2023 | Ecology, Ecology & Conservation, News
As part of the Findhorn Hinterland Trust’s ongoing work to identify the biological diversity that occurs on the 35 hectares of land that we are responsible for managing, we commissioned a survey of the true bugs, or Hemiptera, and barkflies, or Psocoptera, on the site...
by Martin Harker | Nov 25, 2023 | News
It has been a challenging year for beekeeping. We came through the winter with nine of our FHT original eleven hives situated up near the Findhorn Wind Park turbines alive and active. However, a poor spring meant that we continued the winter feeding into April. We...
by Christine Lines | Nov 25, 2023 | News
Share a little background about yourself. I am nineteen years old and grew up in a small town in the Swiss mountains near Lake Geneva. My family has travelled to many places with a nature connection and after leaving school I decided I would travel by myself to...
by Christine Lines | Sep 3, 2023 | Education, News
Forty nine pupils from the Forres Academy National 5 Biology classes travelled to Findhorn on June 22nd to carry out practical sampling techniques as part of their Unit course work – Life on Earth. This trip was supported by the Findhorn Hinterland Trust whose...
by Jonathan Caddy | Sep 3, 2023 | News
It seems a long way off now but thank you for all those that crowded into the James Milne Institute in Findhorn Village for our AGM. It was a wonderful celebration of our achievements showing how we have been maturing as an organisation whose work is appreciated by...
by Christine Lines | Sep 3, 2023 | Ecology, Ecology & Conservation, News
9-10 August 2023 Participants: Chris Wilkinson, Mark Edgeller, Nigel Jones, Robert Kelsh We are a group of keen amateur lepidopterists from across the South of England. For many years we have been keen to visit the Strathspey area of Scotland during late summer to...
by Jonathan Caddy | Sep 3, 2023 | News
Martin lives locally with his wife Elizabeth near Brodie and has been involved with the work of the FHT for at least the last six years both as part of the Land Management subgroup and as a key player as one of the three main managers of the FHT apiary. In June of...
