Morvern Community Woodlands News
Morvern Community Woodlands (MCW) has gone from strength to strength since the community purchased Achnaha Wood eighteen months ago. The sheer number of voluntary hours put in is quite amazing. MCW leads forest activities in the woodland for the school children each month, we have held a host of well attended training, arts and social events, and we’ve installed a [...]
News from Bùrach
The Royal National Mòd in Oban in 2015 was fantastic. The choir continued their success with a third placing in the Sheriff MacMaster Campbell competition for Rural Choirs. Our own choice piece composed by our Gaelic tutor, Alasdair MacIlleBhàin, and arranged by Mary Ann Kennedy, Musical Director of the Inverness Gaelic Choir. The song, Eilean na h-Òige, received a fantastic [...]
A Walk on the Wild Side
Take one Clumber Spaniel, a dotty Tri-Colour Collie named Tam and a rather wise Patterdale Cross Terrier aka Ozzy and you have a recipe for our next great adventure. Before we take you on our Autumn outing, we really must visit the season that brought most of our canine companions to stay, Summer. We have shook many a familiar paw [...]
Summer Pruning
Summers ending and my attention has been focused on taming the fruit trees including apples, pears, plums and cherries that grow within one of our many poly tunnels. Growing fruit trees in this environment presents different challenges to those faced by growing in the traditional outdoors. It is essential that their growth is managed, as the garden had been largely [...]
Lochaber Fisheries Trust
Freshwater Pearl Mussels are an iconic Scottish species that are critically endangered. The Lochaber Fisheries Trust are working with Scottish Natural Heritage, Heritage Lottery and the Scottish Landfill Community Fund to raise the profile of the mussels amongst local communities and help to improve their reproductive success in rivers across Lochaber where their numbers have been in sharp decline. To [...]
The Good Food Guide
The Whitehouse Restaurant, Lochaline, has received a Good Food Guide Award 2016 as a regional winner. Congratulations Team Whitehouse!! http://www.thegoodfoodguide.co.uk/news/local-restaurant-of-the-year-winners-announced
