Join us for the 6th annual Merlindale Nature Festival and enjoy an afternoon of traditional hay cutting, featuring Steffi Shaffler from Teamwork Horse logging, woodworking demonstrations and guided nature walks.

Take part in a range of workshops including wildflower and pollinator identification, scything, wildflower seed collection and herbal storytelling.

Learn more about nature conservation from a broad spectrum of wildlife groups from across the south of Scotland.

Alex Lintott - guided red squirrel walk

Borders Organic Gardeners

Borders Forest Trust

Botanica Fabula herbal storytelling

Butterfly Conservation

Connecting Threads

The Happy Hedgerow

Northumberland Wildlife Trust

Robert Fleet Woodworking

Southern Upland Partnership

Steffi Shaffler - Horse logging and sustainable forestry for mowing

Stuart Craig bird ringing

The Wildlife Trusts

Tweed Ecology

Tweed Forum

Tweed Foundation

Tweed Valley Wilding

Tweeddale Red Squirrel Network

Rob Brodie is running scything workshops for beginners and improvers on Saturday 16th May near Rathillet in NE Fife.

£45 beginners; £35 improvers; £70 to attend both sessions.

For more details go to: https://quietertimes.org/scything/

More information and book, email: robmaculture@yahoo.co.uk