Tom Bywater

It’s hustings season. With less than a month to the National Elections in Holyrood, it’s time to be asking hard questions of the people and parties putting themselves forward. Here are the questions you could be asking candidates, should they come to your door, or you meet them on the street, Jeremy Glass of Sustaining […]

You’re invited to the East Lothian Climate Hub’s first co-working event! On 22 April, between 10am and 3pm, we are opening up our office in the Cockenzie House Willow room to ELCAN members and the public.  This will be an opportunity to come, collaborate on projects and applications with other ELCAN members. Or, just drop

The Food Growers Collective met on Thurs 26th March at Archerfield Walled Garden to discuss Healthy Soils for Food & Nature. 22 people turned up for a tour of the Walled Garden, led by Head Gardener Kerry Lyall, who showed us around their potager, polytunnel to their wildlife garden, to their beautiful compost systems. Throughout,

Future Farm East Lothian held its second event in mid-March on Developing Financial Resilience through Regenerative Agriculture. Many farmers want to adopt practices that are regenerative to land and nature, but need to understand how this financially impacts their business. Johnnie Balfour from Balbirnie Home Farms (Fife) joined to talk on their transition to a

Dear friends, Hedgerow planting season is now over! Many thanks to so many of you who contributed to the planting of over 700 metres of hedgerow this season; also those who helped survey the condition of hedges on different farms.  It has been a brilliant 1st year for the Hedgerow Restoration pilot, and a great

Candidates for Scotland’s newest parliamentary seat are being asked how they will deliver a greener, healthier, fairer country. Constituents for Edinburgh Eastern, Musselburgh and Tranent are invited to attend a hustings on 27 April to ask questions of the main party candidates in the Scottish national elections. The event at 7pm in St Andrew’s High

The Climate Hub visited new ELCAN member, Fairhill Rise, last week, and was blown away but its biodiversity, its different habitats and the work it does with its participants. Fairhill Rise is a land-based day support service for adults with additional needs, set within 60 acres of bio-dynamically managed woodland, meadows and gardens in Pishwanton

The East Lothian Hedgerow Restoration pilot is celebrating a recent project in Tranent. Volunteers and nature groups came together on the Tranent Waggonway at the weekend to patch up one of the region’s most historic hedgerows. Between Thursday 26 and Saturday 28 February 2026, 25 volunteers joined the East Lothian Climate Hub and the Tranent

On Wednesday 11 March, the Fraser Centre will be holding an event to give items a second life. There will be six organisations from across East Lothian and hundreds of items, being given away at little to no cost.

As part of the UK’s “largest ever investment” in community energy, GB Energy is calling for Expressions of Interest from communities across Scotland and the UK. Today the government and GB Energy published the Local Power Plan. Backed by a £1 billion fund, the scheme will support an initial 1000 projects, such as solar panels