Updates & Events

Earlier this month, it was encouraging to see an article on the FAS website about the benefits of storing more water on farms: https://www.fas.scot/news/farm-ponds-and-wetlands-practical-benefits-for-land-water-and-wildlife/ This aligns closely with the aims of Summit to Sea, which recognises that storing more water on farms isn’t just about helping wildlife—it’s a practical way to build resilience into East… Continue reading Farm Ponds and Wetlands: Practical benefits for Land, Water and Wildlife

If you read one thing on water scarcity this year, make it CREW’s Planning for Water Scarcity: Practical guidance for Scottish farmers and growers, published in February. It was funded by CREW at SEPA’s request and written with SAC Consulting, the University of Aberdeen, the James Hutton Institute and SAOS. It runs to 94 pages,… Continue reading Know your risk: a practical water scarcity guide worth an afternoon

Hello, my name is Jenny Gries, and I am the new Catchment Restoration Development Officer for East Lammermuir. My current focus is on meeting landowners in the Spott and Dry burn catchments to better understand how the land is being managed, and to discuss the challenges and opportunities of working in a time of growing… Continue reading New Catchment Restoration Development Officer for East Lammermuir

If you missed this session, here’s some quick takeaways (a 5 minute read) of this 52m hour webinar. It will save you a bit of time and cut through the dry presentation facts. Scotland’s Farm Advisory Service ran a webinar on 23 July on planning for water scarcity in grazing systems, with Kerr Adams of… Continue reading Drier summers are coming to grazing ground – What a national picture means locally

This is a short update about setting up a ‘Project Advisory Group’ for our East Lammermuir River Catchment Restoration Project. Thanks to all those who attended the ‘launch’ event that we held back in February and many thanks for all the very useful input that you gave at the meeting, or subsequently. We are proposing to… Continue reading Interested in Catchment Restoration? We need a Development Officer

Several of us visited the Eddleston Water Natural Flood Management (NFM) project during a sustained rainfall event, which made the outcomes unusually tangible: over a few hours we could watch river levels rise while seeing how different interventions plausibly delayed and reshaped the flood response, through additional storage capacity. The project matters because, prior to… Continue reading Eddleston Site visit Report – 27 Jan 2026

Invitation to the launch of a Project Advisory Group Wednesday 11th February, 5-7pm, Spott Village Hall We would like to invite you to this meeting to hear more about the project and our aspirations and to discuss what form an advisory group could best take as we move forward to develop detailed plans for some… Continue reading East Lammermuir River Catchments Restoration Project

6:30pm – 8.30pm, Sunnyside Farm near Haddington We invite farmers and landowners across East Lothian to the launch event of Future Farming East Lothian (FFEL). FFEL will be a cluster (network) of farmers that looks to support farming, business and nature in a changing climate. The establishment of an effective cluster network for East Lothian looks… Continue reading Future Farming East Lothian, on Wednesday 28th January