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Rake, Rattle & Roll – Coastal meadow preparation
Rake, Rattle & Roll – Coastal meadow preparation We have recently seeded the very useful wildflower, Yellow Rattle. This plant is used to create or restore wildflower meadows, where it...
Blue Mussels and Temperature readings at Largo Bay
Blue Mussels and Temperature readings at Largo Bay The Friends of Largo Bay group have been fantastic in regularly visiting their chosen areas to monitor blue mussels and take quarterly...
Meeting William Grant Foundation with Fauna & Flora
Meeting William Grant Foundation with Fauna & Flora We were delighted to be invited to meet up with Fauna and Flora and the William Grant Foundation on a wild and...
Our Restoration Forth Oyster Talk at Lind & Lime Distillery
Restoration Forth Oyster Talk at Lind & Lime Distillery We had a wonderful evening at the Lind & Lime distillery, Leith hosted by Muckle Brig, Edinburgh Shoreline and the Restoration...
A visit to Granton with SRUC Students and Granton Growers
Visit to Granton with SRUC Students and Granton Growers This year’s annual workshop with SRUC students and Dr Hannah Grist involved a fantastic visit to Granton, where we considered the...
CCN’s gathering exploring arts, culture and heritage
CCN’s gathering exploring arts, culture and heritage Karen recently attended CCN’s mini 1 day gathering exploring how arts, culture and heritage can engage new audiences and deepen our connection with...
Blue Mussels Report at end Year 1
Blue Mussel Report at the end of Year 1 After a year of fantastic support from local communities around the Forth we have pulled together a Blue Mussel Report summarising...
Coastal Meadow preparation gets underway at Gypsy Brae
We have recently seeded the very useful wildflower, Yellow Rattle. This plant is used to create or restore wildflower meadows, where it maintains species diversity by suppressing dominant grasses and...
Victoria Primary School Restoration Forth Mural Project
This October, Edinburgh Shoreline was welcomed into Victoria Primary School in Newhaven, Edinburgh by P6 teacher Lynsey Blyth, where, under the direction and inspiration of Lucy Metcalfe, Karen Chambers and Charlotte Barr three days were spent working with her lovely pupils....
Fauna and Flora communications teams filming days with attendance at Stop Climat...
All five trustees of Edinburgh Shoreline were interviewed by the film crew of Fauna and Flora to provide footage for their publicity purposes (and ours). After a full morning’s interviewing...
Newhaven Talk and Tile Making workshop
Newhaven Talk & Tile Making We ran an ELREC workshop with members of their Polish community. Karen gave a talk at Newhaven Harbour about the loss of fishing, marine species...
Intertidal bioblitz and data loggers at Cramond
Having launched our Above and Below project, funded by Elgol Fund for Nature, in April, we were excited to get to August when our first quarterly thermal data logger readings...
Isle of May Restoration Forth overnight activity stay
Three members of our team spent a happy and sunny two days on the Isle of May in early August where we had been holding our Forthline squares exhibition in...
Edinburgh Shoreline & Elgol Fund for Nature meet up
We were delighted to meet our new funders, Elgol Fund for Nature at Cramond to talk about our shared Above and Below project, and plans for the next two years....
Sea Creature Needle Felting with Jennie Loudon at the Scottish Fisheries Museum
Inspired by our Restoration Forth exhibition ‘Forthlines’ we invited the local community to join artist Jennie Loudon on two occasions to have a go at needle felting in the Scottish...