Category: News

  • Foraging in Nature

    Foraging is such a wonderful and valuable outdoor pastime, with strong links to folklore, tradition and sustainable living. Our little boy, Arthur-Felix, is three, and has become quite the little forager! He has been coming out with us every day since he was just a baby, and after his first foraging experience of Bilberries at…

  • Walking In Nature

    “In a world that is so disconnected right now it is important to reconnect in a way that is safe, friendly and makes you feel great – nature is that way” The pandemic of 2020 has taken a lot from us with so many changes in how we live day to day which creates a…

  • River Magic

    River Magic These last few weeks have been draining at work. The pandemic has such a negative impact on so many people which resulted in me last weekend feeling overwhelmed and huddled up in the house with my dogs. At the start of this week I forced myself to make space in my working week…

  • Nature Explorer Project, With HISA

    Highlands and Islands Students’ Association Launches HISA Nature Explorer Project The Highlands and Islands Students’ Association (HISA) , who represents all higher and further education students across the University of the Highlands and Islands and its 13 partners/Colleges has launched a Nature Explorer Project to encourage students of the University of the Highlands and Islands to…

  • Treasure hunting in Borgie forest

    Recently, Tongue Walking Group managed to hold their #GreenHealthEvent which was funded through Think Health Think Nature, Highland Green Health Partnership funding. Ahead of COVID, there were a number of events planned for 2020 which we hoped would take place throughout the Highlands. These events would aim to encourage local communities to step outside and…

  • Think Nature Health Walks – An Introduction

    Think Nature Health Walks By Health Walks Co-ordinator, Charlotte Mackenzie “I go for a walk whenever I can, whether it’s around the garden, along the river by our house or further afield on an evening or at weekends to one of the many amazing places that there is to explore in the Highlands. Twenty minutes…

  • Transition support through outdoor play

    Transition Support through Outdoor Play Many children breeze through the transition from primary to secondary school, but for some, the move up to a much bigger school can be a very worrying prospect. Ordinarily, the last term of P7 before the summer holidays is all about marking that transition, from leavers assemblies to “moving up…

  • ‘Meeting The Cailleach’

      Living up here in the Highlands gives us the chance to develop a personal relationship with nature that can help to enrich our lives in many ways. Through the cultivation of this very special relationship; a deeper appreciation for the ebbs and flows of the seasons, of nature and ultimately life can help inform…