Rahoy Hills Nature Reserve & Gallery
"The Rahoy Hills Nature Reserve is a wild and remote area of hills, moorland and wood on the Morvern peninsula on the west coast of Scotland. It is owned and managed by the Scottish Wildlife Trust and Ardtornish and is the most biodiverse of all the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s nature reserves. The reserve is an inspiring place with magnificent hills [...]
Scottish Water Project – Lochaline Water Treatment Works
Ardtornish is working closely with Scottish Water to facilitate the upgrading of the Lochaline Water Treatment Works on the outskirts of the village. This has involved considerable investment of management time and the provision of additional land to Scottish Water for the works by Ardtornish. The project will improve the supply of clean fresh water to the village and [...]
Lochaber Drivers Go Carbon Free
In a new move to tackle climate change and air pollution, Ardtornish Estate in Morvern has introduced an electric vehicle charging point – powered from its own hydro turbine. Seen here in use for the first time, by Ardtornish Estate Company chair Dennis Overton and his BMW I3 electric car, the charger is able to top up an average vehicle [...]
Ardtornish Estate Newsletter June 2017
CEO Update I am very pleased to present this newsletter on behalf of everyone at Ardtornish and many thanks for the contributions from colleagues. The first 6 months of 2017 have been very busy and with such a great team of people working here, I am confident that we will get through the workload. There is much going on as [...]
Annual Report, 2016
A word from Dennis Overton, OBE, Chairman of the Ardtornish Estate Company. Dennis Overton, OBE I’m delighted to introduce this, our third such annual report, on behalf of the team at Ardtornish - and to thank them for the year’s work that it records. My tasks as chair of the board are made easier by settled policies [...]
Fresh Spinach & Potato Soup
Ingredients 40g butter 1 large leek roughly sliced 3 sticks of celery chopped 2 medium kitchen garden potatoes peeled and diced 1 bunch spring onions roughly chopped 1.5Ltr of chicken or vegetable stock 500g Fresh kitchen garden spinach 150g half-fat crème fraîche A good pinch of sea salt and ground black pepper to season Method Heat the butter [...]
