Little Assynt Tree Nursery Archives - Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

A Volunteering Thank You

23rd September 2021, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Volunteering has been an integral part of the Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape Partnership, right from the very beginning. What makes us unique from other partnerships was the amount of volunteer community groups who signed up to support projects over the 5 years. When I started my role in year 2 of the scheme there had already been a…

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Our Living Landscape: Communities Leading Change Conference

8th September 2021, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

On 18 August 2021 we held our free, virtual conference, Our Living Landscape: Communities Leading Change, to celebrate the end of our five years of National Heritage Lottery Funding. There were 24 presentations from partners and funders, sharing their learnings and the outcomes of their projects. Over 200 people from all over the UK and beyond registered for the event,…

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Corona Virus CALLP Update

20th March 2020, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

The situation with the coronavirus has caused various discussion within the Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape Partnership (CALLP) team and the Scottish Wildlife Trust with regards to local and national response, and immediately required, responsible action. This has taken into consideration the wellbeing of the partners, the CALLP team and the wider community, as well as the commitment and ambition…

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The Big Climate Fightback: Tree Planting at Little Assynt

19th December 2019, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Guest Blog by Alison Roe Saturday 30th November Quinag looms high on the horizon, glowing gently in the afternoon sun as I pull into the car park by the tree nursery at Little Assynt. I’m here for the tree planting event, organised by CALLP in partnership with The Woodland Trust, and we’re definitely lucky with the weather. Rain and…

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Here we go a-gathering…

6th November 2019, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Lovely Guest Blog from volunteer Griogair MacAllein. The beautiful Autumnal seascape looking over the Minch from Eisg Brachaidh on the Auchiltibue road was the ideal location for a morning of ‘fruitful’ gathering of ‘DOG ROSE’ hips {Rosa canina}. The seed will be ‘treated’ at the ‘Little Assynt Tree Nursery’ for planting next year. Watched on by basking Common Seals…

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October Monthly Volunteer Day

28th October 2019, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Autumn seems to of come around so fast this year! A beautiful crisp day with on off showers meant we had a rainbow for most of the session! As our penultimate volunteer day this year we went for an autumnal stroll with a purpose: to collect Rose hips for the Little Assynt Tree Nursery in order to grow more. We…

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Scottish Wildlife Trust Staff Conference 2019

17th September 2019, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

This month we went to join colleagues at the Scottish Wildlife Trust Staff conference in Seamill, Ayrshire. It was a great two days where we got to catch up with other Living Landscape teams, head office staff and learn about other projects going on at the Trust. On day 1 Fiona and Laura held a workshop, a chance to slow…

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Assynt Games 2019

13th August 2019, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

As always, this year’s Assynt games was fantastic, all be it a little damp! But many of you didn’t let the rain stop the fun. It was fantastic to meet so many of you, local or visitor, and hear your experiences of Coigach and/or Assynt. This year on our stall saw the return of Fiona’s woodland creature workshop, making new…

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Tree-mendous Volunteers

20th May 2019, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Today (20th May) we held a volunteer day at Little Assynt Tree Nursery. For those of you unfamiliar with the nursery, they grow all locally sourced seeds collected by Nick and Susan (our amazing nursery team) and volunteers to produce thousands of trees for local planting projects including our Woodland Planting Project. Tasks for the volunteers today included pricking out…

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CALL at the Assynt Games

13th August 2018, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

After a pretty grey start, what a fantastic day we had for the games! The organisers did an amazing job of putting on a wide range of entertainment alongside the more traditional highland game events such as the hammer throw and caber toss. We had a great time meeting so many people from the local community and far beyond. Alongside…

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