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Meet the Team: Dan Metcalfe
Tell us a little about yourself and your background.I grew up in Southport, Merseyside, studied Philosophy at Cambridge University, then fell into a career of finance and entrepreneurship. More recently I spent 12 years in the Netherlands building a hotel chain,...
Local Biodiversity Action Plan for the Hinterland
In recent months we’ve been drawing up a Local Biodiversity Action Plan (LBAP) for the land that the Findhorn Hinterland Trust is responsible for. This has been drafted primarily by local ecologist Sean Reed, who we work closely with, and with input from various FHT...
News from the Land – Winter/Spring 2026
We’ve had a good winter. Just after Christmas we’ve had a spell of frost and snow - which actually stayed around for about two white weeks. Unusual for our coastal patch of the land. Magical. But It is March now, and spring has come early. The hazels have been...
‘Co- creation with the intelligence of Nature’
Stories from the land… “Spiritual ecology is, at its core, achingly simple. It is the recognition of the universal spirit that imbues all living things - a recognition that must be embodied through conscious spiritual engagement with the Earth. It is not about...
Badgers on the Hinterland
From occasional footprints in sand or snow we had long known that there were badgers on the Hinterland. In the last few years, however, badger activity has increased significantly. Until 2016, badger signs were few and far between, and most were seen out...
Chair’s Report – Winter/Spring 2026.
I had the pleasure of attending my first Findhorn Hinterland Trust winter gathering at the woodland shelter back in December 2025. What a pleasure it was to see so many people from the community gathering enjoying a mince pie and a glass of mulled wine around an...
Meet the team: Jonathan Caddy
As son of two co-founders of the spiritual community here at Findhorn, Jonathan Caddy has spent most of his life roaming and exploring what we now call the Hinterland. As he steps down after 10 years as FHT Chair, he shares its beginnings and his vision for the...
Pictorial History: Working with the Findhorn Hinterland ‘Wild’ Land
What follows is a short pictorial history of over 20 years of involvement and events concerning the land to the north and east of the Park Ecovillage Findhorn – the Findhorn Hinterland. It starts with two major disasters back in 2004 that led to fundamental and...
Chair’s Report – Autumn/Winter 2025
An update from Findhorn Hinterland Trust's new Chair, Colin Shreenan. Autumn and winter are times for change and transition and it has been the same for FHT, with Jonathan Caddy stepping out of the chair position after serving faithfully for 10 years between 2015 and...