Auchtermuchty Common, Holyrood Bees and a Micro Flour Mill

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Rachel looks for dolphins at Spey Bay with Alison Rose from the Scottish Dolphin Centre and hears about their Shorewatch programme.

In this week’s Scotland Outdoors podcast, Mark explores Dr Neil’s Garden in Duddingston in Edinburgh. We hear from head gardener Claudia Pottier as she shows Mark this incredible secret space.

The Flow Country stretches across Caithness and Sutherland and contains the most extensive blanket bog system in the world. In recognition of its global significance, a team has been bidding to make it the planet's first peatland with world heritage status. BBC Scotland’s environment correspondent Kevin Keane visits the Flows to find out more about what a UNESCO status would mean.

Lapwings Community Mill near Stonehaven works with local farmers to grow quality cereals and mill nutritious, tasty flour. As Mark finds out, their aim is to produce local sustainable food that’s available to everyone.

Next weekend Scotland’s first ever 'climate-themed' film festival is taking place in Montrose. We chat live to Rachel Caplan, chair of the LandXSea film festival to find out all about their programme of events and the special guests they have attending.

Lots of us have been heading to the beach during this recent spell of good weather. But if you have mobility issues, getting onto the sand can be tricky. Rachel heads to Balmedie in Aberdeenshire to find out about a beach wheelchair project which is helping people with disabilities experience the seaside.

Phil Sime visits the Tain Air Weapons Range which as well as being a MOD training ground, is also a Site of Special Scientific Interest. He finds out how firing practice and conservation go hand in hand on the site.

There’s a buzz around Holyrood, Rachel visits the Scottish Parliament’s bee hives and hears how their population has increased since they were introduced in 2014.

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0:22.8	This Scotland Outdoors podcast with Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart from BBC Radio Scotland.
0:32.8	Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this. As you know, we built the Scotland Outdoors
0:37.3	podcast from the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland, which is called Out of Doors.
0:42.3	This week Mark visited a very special flour mill and then tried his hand at some early morning beaking.
0:51.3	About ten past five this morning I went out the front door and it was just the sky was full of stars.
0:57.0	Last year, not last year, last week it feels like last year, last week it was just Jupiter and Venus.
1:04.0	Lots of stars this morning and tiny little fingernail moon.
1:08.0	Bonnie, good morning, I'm Mark Stephen here at Beachgrove and Aberdeen.
1:11.3	The other side of the fire, Rachel Stewart. And only one talking point this week, the weather.
1:16.0	I know. Haven't we been lucky? It's a lovely morning this morning. It's warm already. I mean,
1:21.1	I think it's about 13 degrees. And certainly during the night, it felt like it was about 30. We'd every window open in the house and it was still do hot and clammy to go to sleep. But we've had beautiful days. I was in Fife yesterday. I think it was about 24 and it was just gorgeous and sunny. It just felt like we were in the middle of summer again. It felt really humid to me. Yeah, it was. I was a bit swighty. Yeah, it wasn't great for the
1:45.8	hair. It went a bit fuzzy. I don't know how yours stood up. No, no, no, no. Both of them were fine.
1:51.3	Thank you very much for asking. Do let us know what you're up to if you're going to be
1:55.4	enjoying the weather today. I think it's another good forecast. I don't know if we quite get a full weekend of good weather,
2:01.2	but I think today is good.
2:02.6	Let us know if you'll be enjoying it and where you'll be.
2:05.4	You can email us out of doors at BBC.co.uk.
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