Throughout November and December the Edinburgh Mid Week volunteer group has been full of activity, visiting some old favourites along with some great new sites. We've been extremely lucky with the weather, with mostly ...
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Gowan Hill Bioblitz
Today we went up Gowan Hill beside Stirling Castle and did a bioblitz. We took a note of all the plant and wildlife species that we could see. There were five species of tree: willow, birch, hawthorn, elder and poplar. ...
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Wonderful Worms with Uplawmoor Primary School
As part of TCV’s Scotland Counts Project we visited Uplawmoor Primary School in Glasgow to play with worms! We had a fantastic Citizen Science filled day looking at the soil and earthworms in the school grounds and learning ...
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TCV come to the Garden Rescue
When the residents of a local housing association looked out of their back windows, there wasn't much to see apart from two rotary dryers and a forest of overgrown shrubs. There was nowhere to sit and very little space to ...
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Autumn Adventures in Edinburgh
It’s been a busy and exciting couple of months for our mid week volunteer group here in Edinburgh with a huge variety of conservation work taking place all around Edinburgh, the Lothian’s and Fife.
At the beginning of ...
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