Having attended a permaculture weekend in Kilmatin I return home infected by the enthsuiam of the tutor, Ed Taylor. We mainly talked about consumption and waste, what resourses we have and the things we can personally do to help the planet out. On Sunday afternoon we went for a walk in the hills to look at how diverse habitats exist side by side in nature, wetland beside dry areas, rocky habitats and how indigenous trees are hanging in there despite being overgrazed for hundreds of years. Each area has its own type of plants, its amazing the difference walking ten feet made, into a different eco-system!
You can see in this photograph on the hillside opposite how clearfell is affecting the hills, the area in the centre is completely naked of life and there seemed to be a lorry up there every twenty minutes driving past with wood on the way to be pulped. In the bottom left corner is a gravel quarry, also destroying this beautifull area. Sad.
Here is one of the marvellous mini-ecosystems of small ferns and juniper berries, growing out from a surface of lichen and moss, clinging onto a rock surface away from the sheep.
Having attended a permaculture weekend in Kilmatin I return home infected by the enthsuiam of the tutor, Ed Taylor. We mainly talked about consumption and waste, what resourses we have and the things we can personally do to help the planet out. On Sunday afternoon we went for a walk in the hills to look at how diverse habitats exist side by side in nature, wetland beside dry areas, rocky habitats and how indigenous trees are hanging in there despite being overgrazed for hundreds of years. Each area has its own type of plants, its amazing the difference walking ten feet made, into a different eco-system!
You can see in this photograph on the hillside opposite how clearfell is affecting the hills, the area in the centre is completely naked of life and there seemed to be a lorry up there every twenty minutes driving past with wood on the way to be pulped. In the bottom left corner is a gravel quarry, also destroying this beautifull area. Sad.
Here is one of the marvellous mini-ecosystems of small ferns and juniper berries, growing out from a surface of lichen and moss, clinging onto a rock surface away from the sheep.
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Again, beautiful photos, Claire! I've heard that Scotland was a different place, but then a century or so ago, many of our native Douglas Firs were imported to there where they grow very well also. Back then, much work was done to beautify and create wildscape of estates and such and it really changed the look of the whole countryside (according to this story). It sounds interesting history, and I'd love to learn more about it sometime. Ashamed to say, I have a lot to learn about Scotland! That's about all I know...
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