by Struan Candlish | Apr 15, 2024 | General, Green engineering, Projects
Our Nature Restoration Funded Water of Girvan Project update sees us planting trees over the last few months. The weather has been far from kind to us but despite this we’ve planted 2900 trees on the fenced sections of river banks and upwards of 1000 willow...
by Struan Candlish | Apr 5, 2024 | Conservation, Events, General
This week we were very pleased to be joined by a group of volunteers from Thistle Credit Union. Despite being a fairly miserable, wet day we planted over 300 trees on the banks of the River Irvine upstream of its confluence with the Cessnock Water. These trees will...
by Struan Candlish | Feb 20, 2024 | Conservation, Consultation, Events, General
We were pleased to be invited back onto the Thrill of the Hill Podcast where the Farm Advisory Service (FAS) explores the multitude of issues facing the farmed upland environment and how we can reconcile priorities in conflict, showcase good practice, new...
by Struan Candlish | Feb 5, 2024 | Conservation, Events, General, Projects
Last week we were joined by a great group of volunteers who helped us with tree planting aspect of our Greening the Banks of the Water of Girvan Project, supported by the Nature Restoration Fund, the Landowner and the Girvan DSFB. With the green engineering and...
by Struan Candlish | Feb 5, 2024 | Events, fishing, General
Last week we began our first rod building course with a great group of enthusiastic guys all looking to build their own rod from scratch rather than buying a factory built model. Building your own is significantly cheaper, allows creative freedom and most importantly...
by Struan Candlish | Jan 17, 2024 | Conservation, General, Green engineering, Projects
Our Greening the Banks of the Water of Girvan project is making great progress and with the fencing and green engineering aspects of the project complete we’re turning our attention to tree planting over the coming weeks. We had been scheduled to begin planting...