Things have really changed in the last ten years,” said Dorthea Joensen from the Faroese Agricultural Agency. “Now people are talking wool up rather than talking it down.” In early September, standing next to a display...
Category - Frontiers 2026
The Soča valley and the winter war
2026 marks the 30th anniversary of the friendship link between Orkney International Science Festival and the Slovenian Science Foundation. It was the initiative of the Foundation’s director Dr Edvard Kobal, who remembered with...
The Making of the Pentland Firth
The Science Festival’s geology and landscape films are continuing to spread, with the new one from 2025, As Old as the Hills, going to be seen by an Edinburgh audience at the Edinburgh Geological Society on 18 March. Howie Firth...
As old as the hills
We trace our families back in time, and go further back when we visit sites from the past - brochs, cairns, and stone circles. But the Deep Time of geology moves on a different scale. A million years is not even a long weekend in...
Land as a Verb
I tried to begin with a theory. But when I look at the land — when I am with it — theory falls away. It is a living being, and I want the best for it. I want it to thrive. And, as with all relationships with living beings, I am...
The houses, the history, and the good black soil
Ed Bollom is a man who knows a thing or two about gardening and horticulture. Having worked in many famous gardens including Osborne House, Chatsworth House and Highgrove, he was also instrumental in transforming the massive...