After four years, our community once again has a brand new Sanctuary! From the provenance of the beams to the benches to the barrels, there are many significant stories to tell – and the Findhorn Hinterland Trust played an important role every step of the way. Easter Sunday, 20 April 2025 – the day the […]
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Planning for Nature Recovery – LBAP
Balancing gorse and sandy habitats, dune restoration and protecting the Hinterland’s impressive number of rare species are all part of ecologist Sean Reed’s review of the FHT’s five-year Local Biodiversity Action Plan (LBAP). This year sees me reviewing the FHT’s 2020 five-year Local Biodiversity Action Plan (LBAP), which can be accessed via the Trust’s Ecology […]
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Green burials: how does the climate impact compare?
Green burials not only feel like a most natural farewell, their environmental impact is a fraction of more traditional methods. Laura Sheenan, funeral co-ordinator on the FHT’s green burial team, investigated the climate impact of the four main methods – here’s how the research stacks up. Recently I was asked about the climate impacts of […]
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What a buzz! Visiting the bees
Joy, wonder and magic – that’s what Gina Pattisson and her two children experienced on a Spring tour of our beehives. ‘It left us buzzing with excitement and stories for weeks! By Gina Pattisson Spring break is always a wonderful time to have the kids off school and be out ‘in nature’. However, this April […]
News from the Land – May 2025
Nature is busy earlier than normal in an unusually dry spell: is this climate change in real time? Our regular update from the Findhorn Hinterland Trust’s land manager, Kajedo Wanderer. More than four weeks of sunshine – in the North of Scotland – what a way to go seamlessly from spring to summer. ‘Who needs […]
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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 Germany. I chose that […]
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Conservation alongside human homes in the Ecovillage Settlement
Duneland Ltd has always put nature conservation at the heart of its developments. Now, as building is completed and the company winds down, it is handing the baton to the Findhorn Hinterland Trust to continue its good work. In 1997 Duneland Ltd acquired the 400+ acre Wilkie Estate. As well as reserving about seven percent […]
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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 development site to a suitable area out of harm’s way) of some species, particularly the rare Matt Felt Lichen […]
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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 involved, for example the dunes restoration project. This […]
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Chair’s Report – Spring/Summer 2025
As I write it’s only May and yet it feels like summer is already upon us, with so many sunny days, warmth in the air and the trees, plants, birds, bees and other creatures making hay whilst the sun shines! We could do with rain because of the mounting fire risk but I am sure […]