When is this event?
Join us for a day full of learning and experience. We’ll give you the downlow on key things we have learned about:
how to set up and run a productive kitchen garden
keeping hens
working with pigs
regenerative grazing
introduction to beekeeping
planting trees, including fruit trees
There is a HUGE amount of material to cover so this will be intense and fast paced. The day starts at 9am and finishes at 5pm with a BBQ lunch in between. If there is enough interest, we may look to run a second course so if booking is not available, please get in touch with us directly via our website contact form.
Booking Essential
Join us for a fully packed morning in our super abundant kitchen garden, where we will share our experiences in our journey to become self-sufficient, covering:
how to set up a kitchen garden and soft fruit garden
the role of wildflowers and medicinal herbs
growing in a polytunnel
making your own compost
simple water systems
We’ll stop part way through the morning for a cuppa and a slice of cake but otherwise, it will be all about the learning as we download our experiences to you.
Booking essential via website
Join us and foraging expert Clare Holohan from West Highland Herbal and co-author of Scotland’s Wild Medicine for a day learning about wild plants.
You will learn how to identify and use local plants for all round health, which will include a walk around the grounds of the croft in the morning with some foraging and discussion on food and medicinal uses of the plants we find.
You’ll then gather for a feast lunch, which will include some locally sourced produce, supplemented with anything edible we find in the morning.
In the afternoon, you’ll head back out with Clare to do some more practical learning, either making remedies or foods with whatever we have found. Throughout the day, we will talk a little about how we work with nature and our team of animals to build biodiversity across Lynbreck, a place that can provide for all of us.
Music and singing is one of our biggest passions here at The Dell, along with soothing the soul in any way possible. And so we’ve put together a Soundscape Day Retreat that merges the joy of both of those wonderful things.
With breathwork from Katie White Yoga, singing with Jess Bates and Bruce Ncube, an immersive music Soundwalk through the Abernethy Forest led by our own team and a sound bath by Highland Gong lady.
Drinks snacks and lunch will be provided through out the day and there is even a chance to stay on later in to the evening to join us for a pot of food and singing round the fire.
We would love for you to be a part of it, so please get in touch to book 😊 (2 part payment plan available)
The Cairngorms Trust is hosting its first event to celebrate and share the stories of the variety of projects supported. By sharing their stories we’re looking to attract more donations to support more community-led projects this year.
Throughout the afternoon you’ll hear from a project that connects with the four key areas that the Cairngorms Trust supports.
🌱 Nature Project
🌱 Infrastructure Project
🌱 Youth Local Action Group recipient
🌱 Community Led Local Development
The projects will share what they have achieved and what they included in their funding application to be successful in securing funds to implement their vision.
And we’ll hear from our own Cairngorms Active E-Bikes Project and the progress this is making to make active travel more accessible across Badenoch & Strathspey.
Nancy Chambers, Trust Manager will also share about future funds to look out for and an update on the future vision for the Cairngorms Trust.
The event is open to all projects supported by the Trust, supporters, fundraisers and communities.
Take some time out in a gorgeous natural setting, and discover the magic of the night sky with our wild stargazing evenings at Howe of Torbeg.
Guided stargazing sessions in small groups of up to 8 people in the stunning Cairngorms National Park, with its exceptional dark skies.
Learn about the stars and how to find key objects in the constellations in the night sky on your own.
Hot chocolate, a special constellation keepsake and a printed starchart for the month included.
Thinking a Stargazing Evening would make the perfect gift?
Digital vouchers, valid for 12 months from date of purchase, are available via our online shop. We’ve got various dates available right through until Spring 2024, so the voucher recipient can choose the date that works for them.
Where: The walk will take roughly 3 hours and will remain within the Gardens & Grounds of Blair Castle, so an ability to manage this distance is required.
Details:
Join foraging expert Tamara Colchester on a three-hour Spring walk that will introduce participants to around 15 wild, edible and medicinal trees, flowers and plants, along with their etymology, folklore and how best to prepare them.
Learn as you go about poisonous plants, and how to safely identify and avoid them. This meditative, sensory walk will take you into the riotous abundance of spring, ending in a foraged herbal tea with delicious cakes and biscuits prepared with wild ingredients.
Over the past seven years, Tamara has been studying wild plants and her journey began when she was carrying out research for a film about hunter-gatherers. Inspired by her initial findings, she embraced the idea of discovering how people can live off the land in the Northern Hemisphere and in particular the UK. She has built up an incredible knowledge of plants, their food and medicinal benefits, as well as becoming attuned to the seasons and understanding how our eating requirements change and adapt with the weather. In addition to learning about the plants, herbs, trees and flowers in the UK, she has also taken time to understand animal tracking, as to survive in the Northern Hemisphere an omnivore diet is essential.
The walk will take roughly 3 hours and will remain within the Gardens & Grounds of Blair Castle, so an ability to manage this distance is required.
Ticket price: £45 per person, children (under 16 years old) £20.
There are limited places available, subject to availability.
Seasonal Foraging Dates:
Summer Foraging: Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th August
Autumn Foraging: Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th October
This is the final event of Sustainable Strathspey’s 2022/23 winter season of climate cafes with Home Energy Scotland, a local building expert and a local installer in attendance.
The general themes to be covered:
How to maximise the energy performance of an existing property to save energy.
Technical advice on insulation improvements and renewable technologies.
Advice on funding streams and practical considerations of undertaking such work.
The purpose of the event is to engage with householders living in or near Strathspey focusing on these topic areas and having experts on hand to answer questions directly. Although the formal part of the session will be for one hour, we are keen for additional bespoke interaction afterwards.
Open to all.
Join us on this 1 day workshop to build your field skills for birds of the Aberdeenshire coast and estuaries where terns, spring waders, huge seabird colonies and farmland birds await.
This is a not-for-profit workshop.
Located in Upper Deeside, Cairngorms.
Join us on our not-for-profit workshops to get the most out of your birding.
Discover the Cairngorm mountains, from Ptarmigan and Ring Ouzels, right down through the glens and their Black Grouse, Crossbills and Redstarts.
This a 1 day workshop.
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