Jan. 21, 2026
Riparian Planting For The Neighbours At Corehead
In this tree planting session we planted a variety of native trees along a small burn on some la…
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Nov. 30, 2025
Tree Planting At Talla Craig
The conditions were great for the kick-off of the new planting season at Talla craig which was h…
Sept. 24, 2025
Plug Planting For The Neighbours At Corehead
Today we metaphorically sowed the seeds of a new wildflower meadow to boost the insect populatio…
Activities:
Surveying
Word count: 88
July 9, 2025
Fit Counts At Corehead Cabin
For this activity we performed FIT Counts (Flower-Insect Timed Count) set off to Corehead meadow…
Activities:
Surveying
Word count: 127
May 27, 2025
Big Bag Carrydown - Corehead - 2025
Introduction
The trees that were originally planted at Corehead were protected with pla…
May 3, 2025
Camp Out At Talla - Day 1 & 2
Introduction
After the dowsing we received in the volunteer camping trip on the previou…
April 26, 2025
Camp Out At Whitehope Valley - Day 1 & 2
Introduction
This was my first camping expedition with the BFT. One benefit of a weeken…
March 30, 2025
Tree Planting At Talla And Gameshope
Unfortunately my records for this planting day were not very extensive. I took a couple of snaps…
March 2, 2025
Tree Planting At Talla And Gameshope
This was a cracking planting session at "Molls Cleuch". Great weather and found some fantastic p…
Dec. 1, 2024
Tree Planting At Talla And Gameshope
Began by crossing the burn and then planting some alder by said burn and then some birch slightl…
Nov. 17, 2024
Tree Planting At Talla And Gameshope
This edition of planting on Moll's Cleuch was a wet one. It rained steadily throughout and made …
April 14, 2024
Tree Planting At Corehead (The Skirtle)
More planting at the skirtle! Volunteer-wise it was due to be me and 20 people from Edinburgh Un…
March 30, 2024
Vole Guard Removal At Carrifran
We walked along the track at Carrifran until we reached "holy Juniper". From there we fanned out…
March 10, 2024
Tree Planting At Corehead (The Skirtle)
More planting at the skirtle!
March 3, 2024
Tree Planting At Talla And Gameshope
We were planting at the northern boundary of the T&G site which borders the access road. Dis…
Feb. 11, 2024
Tree Planting At Corehead (The Skirtle)
There was a 45 min walk in from the Devil's beeftub carpark. The walk was along the ridge to Whi…
Feb. 4, 2024
Tree Planting At Talla And Gameshope
My second ever tree planting session. I had volunteered one year earlier and on that occasion it…