Rhyze is a workers’ cooperative in Edinburgh who have delivered a previously funded feasibility study into the social, ecological and commercial case for Chaga cultivation in Scotland. This grant will support the next stage of their work to produce a stable and reliable strain of native chaga in vitro which can be used to produce […]
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This grant will enable SCOTLAND: The Big Picture to demonstrate and communicate how to increase the cover of native woodland ground flora within native woodland creation schemes. This will be achieved through a combination of planting and natural colonisation across four sites in their Northwoods Rewilding Network. The lack of woodland ground flora colonising planted […]
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Rhyze is a workers’ cooperative in Edinburgh with an impressive track record of testing different models of community food growing and mushroom cultivation. They are currently researching and investigating the social, ecological and commercial case for Chaga cultivation in Scotland. Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) is a slow growing, parasitic wood-decay fungus mostly found on Birch trees […]
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E3 R&D have been working on a 70 acre site to transform the traditional model of plantation woodland into an approach which delivers much greater environmental and social benefits. They are trialling techniques for a transition to continuous cover and native woodland over substantial areas of land. The area of Sitka plantation that is ‘heather […]
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Dr. François-Xavier Joly is project leader of this University of Stirling project which is quantifying how native woodland regeneration (NWR) affects the quantity of carbon stored in plant biomass, above and belowground and in the soil. “While NWR likely increases carbon sequestration in the vegetation through tree growth, it may not necessarily lead to a […]
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University of St Andrews Professor Rob Wilson‘s research proposal asks “With climate scenarios suggesting that the Scottish climate will become both warmer and wetter, how might this affect the current stock of oak woodlands and their distribution?” This project by the University of St. Andrews will combine data from the physical and chemical analysis of […]
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A grant was awarded to Sarah H. Watts at University of Stirling to support her PhD project researching montane scrub restoration in Scotland. The six-year study, led by PhD researcher Sarah Watts of the University’s Faculty of Natural Sciences, looked at the impact of deer management on mountain woodland. Mountain woodland provides a range of […]
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The University of West of England and the Woodland Creation & Ecological Network (WrEN) were keen to test the hypothesis that relative levels of avian species richness within woodlands can be measured by extracting and identifying DNA filtered from the air. This project sought to test whether an emerging method of extracting DNA from the […]
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The objectives for this partnership between Rick Worrell and Falkland Stewardship Trust, was to collect scion material from wild apple trees in western Scotland, produce grafted plants, and establish 2 small seed stands from these. The trees were previously verified to be wild apple by DNA analysis at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh (RBGE). Outcomes Scion […]
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The Kilsture Forest Community Group were keen to develop their role as co-custodians of the forest through a Citizen Science project, film screenings, surveys (including mycorrhizal networks), storytelling and an artists residency. In 2018 the forest was being sold by Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) so the community rallied to reverse the planned disposal. KFCG opted […]
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