Thanks for great LEAF Surgery today with Martin Kennedy hosted by Claire and LEAF and colleagues. Much to think about - and I agree very strongly about C offsetting. Also will up-a-gear on outreach via livingfield.co.uk and curvedflatlands web. Cheers all.

Global wheat - following on from the map from LivingField2020 - great variation in yield per unit area (tonnes per hectare, t/ha, lines at 2, 6 and 10); small sown area in W Europe partly compensated by high t/ha.

Mapping food and climate change: great inaugural visit to Huntly. Tremendous enthusiasm. Thanks from SEDA Land visitors (Gail, Mads, Sophie, me) to all at HDT, Deveron Projects and Gordon Schools (photos by Gail) @ScotEcoDesign @GordonSchools Deveron Projects James Hutton Institute

Interesting combination Jean. One N releasing and one N demanding plant in this mixture with the vines. Have a great visit (lucky thing) and can the Living Field have some photos when you get back please.

Global wheat - great variation in the middle range of wheat producing countries. To the right - low yield, large sown area, export driven. Left - smaller area, high yield, high inputs, home consumption, but will the soil sustain.

SEDA Land Conversations @ScotEcoDesign - two new upcoming events. The first: Imagining Bioproducts on 13 June 2022, 2 pm. Online and Live at Huntly. James Hutton Institute Details at seda.uk.net/imagining-biop…

Want to find out more about the move to #NetZero and the opportunities & risks for Scotland's land? Join our 'Natural Capital & Land' series of free online events exploring the growing investment in carbon & #NaturalCapital & what it means for #Scotland's land & communities ⬇

At this informative forage held near Forres, Anna Canning Anna Floramedica showed parallels between ancient practices and recent research on combining compounds from different medicinal plants for effective pain relief.

Continuing the successful series of online Conversations hosted by SEDA Land. Very timely. For Geoffrey Squire take on the previous Conversation on Carbon Tax see curvedflatlands.co.uk/land/carbon-ta…

Thanks Living Field. The EU Copernicus services have been essential this year, keeping us up to date with the catastrophic weather. Will be interesting to see what August rainfall does to the comparison in eastern Scotand.

Thanks LivingField2020 for the ancient cereals. Here’s my fave - Spratt barley aka Battledore barley, recognised in the 1800s as a distinct if peculiar type. What a structure livingfield.co.uk/cereal/ancient…

The team from T&SH4Ukraine and Siobhan’s Trust providing humanitarian aid, including food, to Ukraine, the start of 4 days fundraising at the Atholl horse trials. Fantastic commitment! tash4ukraine.weebly.com & siobhanstrust.uk

It’s good to see the long term science at the Centre for Sustainable Cropping James Hutton Institute ES James Hutton contributing crucial knowledge to globally important issues; well done to all farm and science people who grew the crops and took the measurements.

Went to find James Hutton’s Unconformity on Arran a few weeks ago. What a mind, to notice the two contrasting rock strata, and revise our understanding of geological time! A freshwater stream runs to the sea just by the Unconformity causing a botanical one James Hutton Institute

Forgot to add the link to the Living Field article about Hutton’s Unconformity. Here it is: livingfield.co.uk/geology/james-…

The Society for Ecological Restoration Europe (SERE) chapter.ser.org/europe/ is upping its successful recruitment drive, now with emph on students and young people (a career in restoration!). Check the SERE web for career guides and opportunities #500EERs YOUNG#ER

More on the Society for Ecological Restoration Europe (SERE)’s YOUNG#ER recruitment drive. Links on the Living Field livingfield.co.uk/restoration/ec…. Heal the planet. Be part of the UN decade 2021-2030 #GenerationRestoration @unbiodiversity

They stalked the croplands a 1000 years ago! Nothing else like them - a global heritage. My faves are the Meigles - the smiley one and the grumpy one. Thanks to KO.

A great day and discussion ahead, organised by Bioregioning Tayside Bioregioning Tayside on Feeding Tayside through the Climate Crisis at Discovery Point Dundee today. The whole food chain needs to change, right back to the soil microbes in each field #ClimateTayside23

Great day at Bioregioning Tayside meeting last Friday. Big Q: Can the landscape feed the people? We can start by defining what the land is doing now, then work out what it could do. Here, different land uses in an area are identified: next steps are trickier #ClimateTayside23