volunteer Archives - Cumbernauld Living Landscape

A New Beginning

16th March 2022, by Cumbernauld Living Landscape

Sadly I have come to the end of my time as a Creating Natural Connections Trainee with Cumbernauld Living Landscape, so I wanted to take some time to reflect on my past few months helping to protect and enhance Cumbernauld’s many green spaces! Months ago I came to the project desperate to expand my knowledge and to develop more skills…

Volunteering, Creating Natural Connections, Wild Ways Well, General, Education and community, Projects, News

Spring foraging – fresh food for free!

10th March 2021, by Cumbernauld LL

by David Walsh, Cumbernauld Living Landscape Project Officer As winter drifts away and spring emerges, we start to see an abundance of wildflowers back in bloom. Over the past year it has brought a particular sense of excitement for me. This is due to my new hobby: foraging! Foraging is often viewed as a bit scary. None of these plants…

Species and habitats, Volunteering, Tips and advice

Trees are amazing!

13th January 2021, by Cumbernauld Living Landscape

Local resident and Cumbernauld Living Landscape volunteer Josh Chambers was out investigating trees recently. ‘There are tons of species of trees – about 60,000+ I think. Apparently there are over 18 million live trees in Scotland. Scotland’s most common native trees are Scots pine, birch, oak, hazel, willow, rowan, hawthorn, juniper, elder, alder and wild cherry. My grandad use to…

Guest blog

A frosty walk among the Hawthorns!

22nd December 2020, by Cumbernauld LL

Our guest blogger Josh has found some cool Hawthorns this week: “During a frosty walk at the weekend I stumbled across this tree lauded with berries. Upon research I believe it to be a hawthorn tree. These are very common everywhere in the UK and Ireland. Hawthorn is said to be one of the most magical trees. Interestingly, hawthorns can…

Guest blog

Helping Cumbernauld’s amazing bogs

19th August 2020, by Cumbernauld LL

Cumbernauld Living Landscape’s amazing volunteers are out once again helping to manage and improve local greenspaces. You might even have seen our Nature Ninjas in Ravenswood Local Nature Reserve last week, working away in the blazing sunshine. Our first task was improving the access ways around the park. This included cutting back some of the over-hanging long grass and the…

Projects, Volunteering, Wildlife reserves

Tree planting day

4th December 2019, by Cumbernauld LL

I love planting trees! There is little as satisfying as rooting a tree, taking a step back and imagining its future. How many years will it stay up for? What challenges will it face? What animals might call it home? When you plant trees, it feels like you’re planting a legacy. It’s your tree, and you want to look after…

Volunteering, Creating Natural Connections

Five reasons to volunteer in nature

7th August 2019, by Cumbernauld LL

With summer in the air and thunderstorms crashing about I thought that this would be a good time to introduce myself. I’m David, the new Project Officer with Cumbernauld Living Landscape! My job is to run volunteering activities that will improve green spaces across the town. I have a massive announcement… Weekly volunteering groups will be starting at the…

Volunteering, Wildlife reserves

As Above Better Below

1st May 2019, by Paul Barclay

The sound of the motorway thunders in my ears and I imagine the cars moving up and down it. What are all those people thinking about as they drive past? Are they marvelling at the road itself, this miracle of human engineering? Oh the wonders above, but what about the wonders below? I chuckle as I move through the woods,…

Species and habitats, Guest blog, Volunteering, Inspirational, Wild Ways Well

New Year, New You

2nd January 2019, by Paul Barclay

What were you doing at the bells? If you’re anything like me you will have course have been sitting in furious concentration studying a year planner, mapping out your route through 2019. And in order to have as successful a year as possible you’ll also have been planning your resolutions, all the ways you’re going to make 2019 the…

Volunteering, Wild Ways Well

Tremendous Trees

25th July 2018, by Paul Barclay

If there’s one thing the recent spell of sunshine has shown me, it’s the value of a good tree. I often have people tell me how lucky I am to have an outdoor job – and of course they’re right – but at the same time it can get pretty sweaty working outside in the heat! I don’t have any…

Species and habitats, Wildlife reserves, Creating Natural Connections, Wild Ways Well

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