Considerate forager thoughts

Where I live on the river Esk system (where I’m confined to during the 2020 Covid-19 lock-down) then I have been taking my daily exercise along the local rivers. Sometimes walking along the river, as the water is so low now, much to the surprise of some of the cows in...

‘Our’ Falls – keeping busy with new signs for Polbeth

Like many others, we (Minty Donald and Nick Millar) are trying to find ways continue our work during these strange and uncertain times and to stay in contact with the communities we’ve been working with. We are very keen to keep the ‘Our’ Falls project alive during...

Binny Craig – a windy walk with SRUC

We thought we would do something a little different – although, granted, the RiverLife project can often come up with something a little different on a daily basis – and let some students deliver our guided walk. For RiverLife the aim is to get communities connected...

Tatty bye

It’s difficult to summarise three years at the Forth Rivers Trust in a single blog post, especially when it’s the Friday afternoon of your last week and the lure of a cold, frothy pint of ale at the neighbouring pub is unusually persistent. So, I have...

Tidy your Burn on Burns day – Armadale

I was privileged to be involved at the beginning of a new community drive to tidy up their local area. The main motivator on the scene in Armadale was a very inspiring local lad by the name of Finlay. He was compelled to start the group from his experiences litter...