Unless you are a forager, you might not know that the early leaves of the rowan tree taste like marzipan, that shoots from the pine tree can make an awesome spice, that the saponins in birch leaves make a cleanising spring tea...
Category - Frontiers 2019
The great cartographer: Murdoch Mackenzie
One of the great names in cartography is Murdoch Mackenzie, whose charts of Orkney waters in the 18th century were a breakthrough. His story was told in a talk to the Rotary Club of Orkney some years ago by a much-respected...
Dreaming of Mars
It’s just on fifty years since the first footstep on the Moon. At the time it seemed that the Moon...
Kill or cure
A late spring can bring feelings of malaise and tiredness. One of the tonics common to Orkney last...
The plants that heal
What do swallows stuffed with eggs, arsenic and lemon have to do with herbal remedies and beauty...