Ferry Wood 🌿

This fruiting Pannaria was one of May lichens seen on the ASR field trip recently in the Cowal area of Argyll

More on how Sally’s collecting seed in Ferry Wood

Sally is also collecting seed to grow on. This is how she is doing it

Sally has also installed soil probes into the cleared rhododendron site

First in a series by SallyGouldstone of ACT who is researching into rainforest sites that have been cleared of rhododendron.

At Edinburgh book festival #eibf about to see Louise Welsh and her bioregional work on the Clyde having a unique identity: see her podcast Who owns the Clyde?

For years, Ferry Wood has welcomed volunteers and friends from around the world. This week, we’re excited to share Katie’s journey all the way from Canada following #WorldNatureConservation week. #ForestConservation #NatureConservationDay #Conservation

Aspen in foreground did not exist 9 years ago but thanks to stopping sheep grazing in field the bracken moved in, suckers were able to grow and now we have dozens of trees in what was once pasture

A young oak growing out of a pile of rhododendron which was cleared using the lever and mulch method avoiding the use of herbicide.#naturee#WorldNatureCinservation-Day#Scottlandsrainforest

Cotton grass a common bog plant it’s fluffy seed heads have been used for pillow stuffing candle wicks and wound dressing though it would take some time to collect!
#bogday
#nature
#westlochtarbert

The connections grow, helping create more connections. Like the plants around you, you begin to grow.”- excerpt from bioregioning blog by Ed Tyler.

You make friends with your neighbours and start working on joint projects, projects that give you a sense of satisfaction and conviviality. You spend less time driving and sitting in front of a computer screen in search of worthwhile connections.

🌿 You have set off on what is to become your own personal saga of local connections. You start to reach out to all the life that is around you. Meet the animals and insects that share your bioregion with you.

👣 Wander, discover, get lost, awaken to what is around you. Use your feet to do it; it’s what they are for; it’s what you are for.

🌱 Garden: as well as crops, collect seed from plants that happily grow around you and introduce them into the spaces that you tend. Intend, tend what is around.

Image 01: Aerial depiction of our bioregion ©️ Photo Ferry Wood.

Image 02: Bioregional patterning sketch by Ed Tyler. ©️ Photo Ferry Wood.

"Bioregioning: the act of bringing your bioregion into existence through:🍃 grounding, connecting, celebrating, belonging 🍃

🦫To begin: ground yourself in the here and now. You already live in a bioregion. Manifest it to yourself by exploring the land around you.

bioregioning co-creating my local bioregion along the south west coast of Scotland

Away from Ferry Wood, we collaborate with fellow community activists to create a vibrant local bioregion through permaculture along the west coast of Scotland’s Kintyre Peninsula. 

🔗Read more about our work on bioregioning.com. 

🔗 Read our blog: bit.ly/44XgpNe

#Forest #Rewild #Nature

📷Image 01: Carina walking through the field by the cabin at Ferry Wood. ©️Photo Ferry Wood.

📷Image 02: Carina and Ed in Ferry Wood. ©️Photo Ferry Wood.

📷Image 03: Volunteer (Shaye) and Carina in Ferry Wood. ©️Photo Ferry Wood. 

Our bioregion can be found along a recently glaciated, multi-layered, and complex winding coast, taking in islands, headlands, bays, harbour fishing villages, peninsulas, sea and land lochs, fields, farms, cliffs, gullies, gorges, ravines, rocky scars, knolls, hills, and the foothills of mountains.⛰️

Forgotten Woodlands Can linguistic clues enhance our understanding of an area's past and inspire its future potential?

Brilliant project to use Gaelic place names to reveal lost woodlands. Very useful for rainforest restoration

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#world rainforest day#lichens
temperate rain forest
Ferry wood rainforest

Chris is researching how quickly bryophytes and lichens recolonise areas of temperate rainforest cleared of rhododendron #scotlandsrainforest

Thanks @actinargyll.bsky.social

Site visit at Ferry Wood. (from left) Chris Ellis, Ed and Carina, Chris, Ben (MSc students at the University of Edinburgh), and Sally Gouldstone. Photo Sally Gouldstone.

📷 Carina pictured during visit. Highlights from a site visit at Ferry Wood. Photo Sally Gouldstone.

📷Highlights from a site visit at Ferry Wood. Photo Sally Gouldstone.

🌿This #WorldEnvironmentDay, we share highlights of a visit from Dr. Sally Gouldstone of @actinargyll.bsky.social earlier last month to Ferry Wood, alongside Chris Ellis (a lichenologist from @thebotanics.bsky.social , and students from the
University of Edinburgh. Highlights from the visit below!

Interesting discussion with Sophie Pavelle about her new book exploring symbiotic relationships in nature which includes a chapter on Lobaria Pulmonaria

Start the Week - Mathematics, Symbiosis and Japanese art - BBC Sounds Adam Rutherford discusses art, maths and creativity with Marcus du Sautoy.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

2020: Before Rhododendron Clearance

2024: After Rhododendron Clearance

🌱 As #InvasiveSpeciesWeek draws to a close, we wanted to share pictures taken from the same spot, the first in 2020 before rhododendron clearance, the second in 2024 afterwards. See how the complex topography of the land is revealed, plus native trees which had disappeared from view.

#INNSWeek

Thanks @wtscotsocial.bsky.social

Delighted to feature on @asrainforest.bsky.social this month! Thanks for sharing our work at Ferry Wood!

"Trees share resources to overcome environmental challenges."

Ecosystems work together to overcome difficult conditions, and most people do the same, given a chance.

But we're told selfishness is not only normal, but a good thing, because that's how those who crave and gain wealth and power are.

Sections of cleared Ferry Wood pictured in the sun. ©️Photo Ferry Wood.

#InvasiveSpeciesWeek
Early in our journey of becoming rare woodland custodians, we were challenged on how to manage the wood in ways that safeguard all rare species on site. They're threatened by invasive rhododendrons for a start.

This week we unpack our approaches to managing invasive species. 🌿