Balanced Horizon is local lead for Scotland’s Farm Cluster Connections
Balanced Horizon, in partnership with East Lothian Climate Hub, is taking on the role of local facilitator for a new national programme called ‘Farm Cluster Connections’.
Balanced Horizon, in partnership with East Lothian Climate Hub, is taking on the role of local facilitator for a new national programme called ‘Farm Cluster Connections’.
Mike Thornton has recently joined the Balanced Horizon team as a full-time Senior Landscape Ecologist for our Muir to Forth programme.
Travelling through East Lothian today, the landscape feels timeless: a fertile rolling coastal plain of largely arable fields rising southwards to rising foothills and the higher moorland of the Lammermuirs and Moorfoots.
Scotland’s Land Reform Bill is in its final throes with the intention that voting will be completed this week. It has some important implications for reversing biodiversity loss, particularly for those larger landowners whose holdings exceed 1000 hectares.
It’s been a busy and inspiring few weeks working alongside the incredible team of Restoration Forth – Find out more …
Online Auction: November 2–7, 2025 and Autumn Feast & Live Auction Finale: Friday, November 7, 2025 at The Barn, Harvest Moon, East Lothian
Walk along a Scottish beach after a storm, and you’ll likely spot ropes, bottles, and fishing gear tangled in the sand. These fragments may seem small, but they tell a bigger story, one where citizen science is helping protect our seas.
For the third year in a row, the SCCU crew packed up our gloves, bags, and buckets and returned to the beautiful Isle of Luing, this time teaming up with the wonderful folk at Wild Luing.