May 13, 2026
Badger Bank (Midweek Volunteering At Corehead)
Today we finished the last of the unexpected tree planting days. There remained mostly oak and birc…
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May 6, 2026
Cuckoo And Cuckoo Flowers
Some new tree planting and gardening of old trees
We spent the morning planting through an old stoc…
May 1, 2026
Montane Camping Weekend At Gameshope Valley
Day 1
Following arrival and registration we loaded our bags into one of the two support station-wag…
April 29, 2026
Planting At Corehead
We planted on 2 sites today. It is considered late in the season for regular tree planting since mo…
April 22, 2026
Tree Guard Removal At Corehead
Large turn out today as a group from "Natural England" were visitng the site on a fact finding miss…
April 19, 2026
Tree Planting At Talla Craig
The day started with quite a delay again due to some late arrivals but otherwise we had a very prod…
April 1, 2026
Midweek Volunteer Farming Waste Plastic Clearup (…
Today was just me and Adrian (corehead site manager). We had 2 tasks to complete today. Firstly, wo…
March 18, 2026
Tree Guard Removal At Corehead
We removed some tree tubes at Corehead.
March 11, 2026
Weekday At Corehead
Today we continued removing the fence that we started the previous week.
There were 3 other volunte…
March 8, 2026
Bft 30 Year Anniversary Planting Weekend
- tussocky
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March 4, 2026
Weekday At Corehead
There was a small Hazel copse that was planted around 12 years ago and is planned that these trees …
March 1, 2026
Weekend Volunteer Tree Planting At Talla
As forecasted today's planting involved bad weather and non-stop rain.
Due to some late arrivals it…
Feb. 26, 2026
Weekend Volunteer Tree Planting At Talla
Due to the very wet weather and high wind speeds we planted close to the barn at Talla today.
Andy …
Feb. 22, 2026
Weekend Volunteer Tree Planting On Talla Craig
After the previous weekend was cancelled due to freezing conditions, we were treated to a mostly dr…
Feb. 4, 2026
Midweek Volunteer Tree Planting On Ericstane (Cor…
Just 2 volunteers this week plus the site manager. We began by planting a couple of apple trees in …
Feb. 4, 2026
Mideweek Volunteer Tree Planting On Ericstane (Co…
Just 2 volunteers this week plus the site manager. We began by planting a couple of apple trees in …
Jan. 28, 2026
Hedgerow Planting For The Neighbours At Corehead
This week a hedgerow was planted along a fence line on the property of a Corehead neighbour.
The p…
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 land …
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 hith…
Oct. 10, 2025
Yellow Rattle Planting In Peebles Golf Course
Planted some yellow rattle...
Sept. 30, 2025
Trees For Life - Dundreggan - Nursery Day
Our third day at Dundreggan was spent in the nursey.
Contrary to the estate work we were doing, the…
Sept. 29, 2025
Trees For Life - Dundreggan - Adding More Fence B…
On our second volunteering day we set out to another location a couple of side valleys up Glenmoris…
Sept. 28, 2025
Trees For Life - Dundreggan - Adding Fence Battens
On our first volunteering day at Dundreggan the task was to add battens to a dear fenced "exclosure…
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 population i…
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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 to…
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 plastic tree-tu…
May 3, 2025
Camp Out At Talla - Day 1 & 2
Introduction
After the dowsing we received in the volunteer camping trip on the previous weekend, I…
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 weekend trip was t…
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 snapshot…
March 2, 2025
Tree Planting At Talla And Gameshope
This was a cracking planting session at "Molls Cleuch". Great weather and found some fantastic plan…
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 slightly u…
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 me …
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 Unive…
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 al…
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. Dissapoint…
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 Whiteh…
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 wa…