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Greening the Banks of the Water of Girvan Project Update #4
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 cuttings...
River Irvine Tree Planting
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...
Podcasting with the Farm Advisory Service – The Thrill of the Hill.
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...
Tree Planting on the Water of Girvan
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...
Rod Building with ART
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...
Greening the banks of the Water of Girvan Video Update #3
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 this...
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