Martin Brown
@martinbr.bsky.social
Traveller on a regenerative journey.
Sharing Stories, Nature Writing & Watercolour
Host @ Zoom Regenerative
Writer: @ Regen/Notes +
Author: FutuREstorative +
Place: Forest of Bowland
More at
https://fairsnape.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/martin_brown
Sharing Stories, Nature Writing & Watercolour
Host @ Zoom Regenerative
Writer: @ Regen/Notes +
Author: FutuREstorative +
Place: Forest of Bowland
More at
https://fairsnape.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/martin_brown
December 7, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Day 6: What would it mean to map soil life with the same detail we map utilities?
Stepping gently with soil as cartographer, mapping carbon history,
rainfall memory, fire intervals, species migrations, colonial scars and our footstep echoes
#livingbuildingsdaily #dailynature #naturewriting #scape
Stepping gently with soil as cartographer, mapping carbon history,
rainfall memory, fire intervals, species migrations, colonial scars and our footstep echoes
#livingbuildingsdaily #dailynature #naturewriting #scape
December 6, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Day 6: What would it mean to map soil life with the same detail we map utilities?
Stepping gently with soil as cartographer, mapping carbon history,
rainfall memory, fire intervals, species migrations, colonial scars and our footstep echoes
#livingbuildingsdaily #dailynature #naturewriting #scape
Stepping gently with soil as cartographer, mapping carbon history,
rainfall memory, fire intervals, species migrations, colonial scars and our footstep echoes
#livingbuildingsdaily #dailynature #naturewriting #scape
‘But pause here between forest and moorland, and you will see a quiet revolution rising from the earth’
Merryn Glover beautiful #NatureWriting on the Cairngorms ancient forest liminal and ecotone spaces evoke Nan Shepherds Living Mountain.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Merryn Glover beautiful #NatureWriting on the Cairngorms ancient forest liminal and ecotone spaces evoke Nan Shepherds Living Mountain.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Country diary: Green shoots in the ancient forest | Country diary
Glen Einich, Cairngorms: A wintry walk in the Rothiemurchus woodland is always glorious. To see some of its barer expanses starting to recover tops it off
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
‘But pause here between forest and moorland, and you will see a quiet revolution rising from the earth’
Merryn Glover beautiful #NatureWriting on the Cairngorms ancient forest liminal and ecotone spaces evoke Nan Shepherds Living Mountain.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Merryn Glover beautiful #NatureWriting on the Cairngorms ancient forest liminal and ecotone spaces evoke Nan Shepherds Living Mountain.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Day 4: Could stormwater systems double as wetland corridors, purifying water through living chains of soil & roots?
... What imagery, feelings, questions, words, interventions rise for you in letting cities and towns breathe? #LivingBuildingsDaily #Symbiogenesis
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... What imagery, feelings, questions, words, interventions rise for you in letting cities and towns breathe? #LivingBuildingsDaily #Symbiogenesis
open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...
Mycelium and Masonry: December Reflections on Regenerative Design
31 Day Calendar Prompts for Living Buildings
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Day 4: Could stormwater systems double as wetland corridors, purifying water through living chains of soil & roots?
... What imagery, feelings, questions, words, interventions rise for you in letting cities and towns breathe? #LivingBuildingsDaily #Symbiogenesis
open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...
... What imagery, feelings, questions, words, interventions rise for you in letting cities and towns breathe? #LivingBuildingsDaily #Symbiogenesis
open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...
Day 3: What if *every* street became a pollinator pathway connecting fragmented ecosystems?
Join the 31 Day #Symbiogenesis (sort of advent) Calendar
"... Each day invites a sense of emergence ..."
#LivingBuildingsDaily
Join the 31 Day #Symbiogenesis (sort of advent) Calendar
"... Each day invites a sense of emergence ..."
#LivingBuildingsDaily
December 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Day 3: What if *every* street became a pollinator pathway connecting fragmented ecosystems?
Join the 31 Day #Symbiogenesis (sort of advent) Calendar
"... Each day invites a sense of emergence ..."
#LivingBuildingsDaily
Join the 31 Day #Symbiogenesis (sort of advent) Calendar
"... Each day invites a sense of emergence ..."
#LivingBuildingsDaily
In the last light of day,
A still time on the fell.
A bird calls above.
You turn.
Your inner horizon shifts.
You are rearranged,
just slightly, but enough.
💚 #DailyNature #NoticingNature
A still time on the fell.
A bird calls above.
You turn.
Your inner horizon shifts.
You are rearranged,
just slightly, but enough.
💚 #DailyNature #NoticingNature
December 3, 2025 at 7:31 AM
In the last light of day,
A still time on the fell.
A bird calls above.
You turn.
Your inner horizon shifts.
You are rearranged,
just slightly, but enough.
💚 #DailyNature #NoticingNature
A still time on the fell.
A bird calls above.
You turn.
Your inner horizon shifts.
You are rearranged,
just slightly, but enough.
💚 #DailyNature #NoticingNature
Day 2: How have pavements cut off underground mycorrhizal networks that once connected trees in mutual support across miles?
Join the 31 Day #Symbiogenesis (sort of advent) Calendar
"... Each day invites a sense of emergence ..."
#LivingBuildingsDaily
Join the 31 Day #Symbiogenesis (sort of advent) Calendar
"... Each day invites a sense of emergence ..."
#LivingBuildingsDaily
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Day 2: How have pavements cut off underground mycorrhizal networks that once connected trees in mutual support across miles?
Join the 31 Day #Symbiogenesis (sort of advent) Calendar
"... Each day invites a sense of emergence ..."
#LivingBuildingsDaily
Join the 31 Day #Symbiogenesis (sort of advent) Calendar
"... Each day invites a sense of emergence ..."
#LivingBuildingsDaily
#LivingBuildingsDaily
Day 1: Look at your town or city from a bee’s perspective: where are the flowering corridors and where are the dead zones?
open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...
Day 1: Look at your town or city from a bee’s perspective: where are the flowering corridors and where are the dead zones?
open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...
Mycelium and Masonry: December Reflections on Regenerative Design
31 Day Calendar Prompts for Living Buildings
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
#LivingBuildingsDaily
Day 1: Look at your town or city from a bee’s perspective: where are the flowering corridors and where are the dead zones?
open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...
Day 1: Look at your town or city from a bee’s perspective: where are the flowering corridors and where are the dead zones?
open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...
Mycelium and Masonary
… going beyond the advent calendar to finish 2025 with a series of daily reflection Symbiogenesis prompts (for contemplation, sketching, or conversation) that will challenge and enlighten what living buildings can be.
open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...
#LivingBuildingsDaily
… going beyond the advent calendar to finish 2025 with a series of daily reflection Symbiogenesis prompts (for contemplation, sketching, or conversation) that will challenge and enlighten what living buildings can be.
open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...
#LivingBuildingsDaily
December 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Mycelium and Masonary
… going beyond the advent calendar to finish 2025 with a series of daily reflection Symbiogenesis prompts (for contemplation, sketching, or conversation) that will challenge and enlighten what living buildings can be.
open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...
#LivingBuildingsDaily
… going beyond the advent calendar to finish 2025 with a series of daily reflection Symbiogenesis prompts (for contemplation, sketching, or conversation) that will challenge and enlighten what living buildings can be.
open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...
#LivingBuildingsDaily
A little November Herb Robert and Gorse colour spotted this week, … @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
#BeaconFell #Lancashire
#BeaconFell #Lancashire
November 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
A little November Herb Robert and Gorse colour spotted this week, … @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
#BeaconFell #Lancashire
#BeaconFell #Lancashire
Good to listen to Sophy Roberts at @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social, Training School for Elephants, and a reminder, from Robert Frost … “a poem begins with a lump in the throat’ … as a deeply emotional and embodied experience.
#NatureWriting
#NatureWriting
November 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Good to listen to Sophy Roberts at @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social, Training School for Elephants, and a reminder, from Robert Frost … “a poem begins with a lump in the throat’ … as a deeply emotional and embodied experience.
#NatureWriting
#NatureWriting
#BookWeekScotland #friendship
Nan Shepherd
Living Mountain
‘Yet often the mountain gives itself most completely when I have no destination, when I reach nowhere in particular but have gone out merely to be with the mountain as one visits a friend with no intention but to be with him’
#NatureWriting
Nan Shepherd
Living Mountain
‘Yet often the mountain gives itself most completely when I have no destination, when I reach nowhere in particular but have gone out merely to be with the mountain as one visits a friend with no intention but to be with him’
#NatureWriting
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
#BookWeekScotland #friendship
Nan Shepherd
Living Mountain
‘Yet often the mountain gives itself most completely when I have no destination, when I reach nowhere in particular but have gone out merely to be with the mountain as one visits a friend with no intention but to be with him’
#NatureWriting
Nan Shepherd
Living Mountain
‘Yet often the mountain gives itself most completely when I have no destination, when I reach nowhere in particular but have gone out merely to be with the mountain as one visits a friend with no intention but to be with him’
#NatureWriting
The thrust of the song thrush song has to be #joy … There is a willpower in the emotion.
@markcoker.bsky.social in this morning’s Country Diary
#NatureWriting
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@markcoker.bsky.social in this morning’s Country Diary
#NatureWriting
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Country diary: What is the thrust of the song thrush song? It has to be joy | Mark Cocker
Hogshaw, Derbyshire: To hear one in December isn’t totally unheard of – any excuse to revel in that uplifting, deceptively simple sound
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The thrust of the song thrush song has to be #joy … There is a willpower in the emotion.
@markcoker.bsky.social in this morning’s Country Diary
#NatureWriting
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@markcoker.bsky.social in this morning’s Country Diary
#NatureWriting
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I caught this evening …
Windhover, Kestrel, against Earth shadow at sundown, a connection to wild, spiritual, transcendent Hopkins prose
#NoticingNature #NatureWriting
Windhover, Kestrel, against Earth shadow at sundown, a connection to wild, spiritual, transcendent Hopkins prose
#NoticingNature #NatureWriting
November 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I caught this evening …
Windhover, Kestrel, against Earth shadow at sundown, a connection to wild, spiritual, transcendent Hopkins prose
#NoticingNature #NatureWriting
Windhover, Kestrel, against Earth shadow at sundown, a connection to wild, spiritual, transcendent Hopkins prose
#NoticingNature #NatureWriting
Nature writer, n. A person who delights in paying attention, being astonished, and telling about it.
(Mary Oliver)
#NatureWriting
(Mary Oliver)
#NatureWriting
November 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Nature writer, n. A person who delights in paying attention, being astonished, and telling about it.
(Mary Oliver)
#NatureWriting
(Mary Oliver)
#NatureWriting
An evening walk along Rubh Arisaig coast road. The sky as the sands, silver with hues of grey and many more of blue. Oystercatchers squabbling at low tide, winter bracken of firebright burnt and raw umbers. 💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
An evening walk along Rubh Arisaig coast road. The sky as the sands, silver with hues of grey and many more of blue. Oystercatchers squabbling at low tide, winter bracken of firebright burnt and raw umbers. 💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
Wonderful atmospherics today on #Knoydart “Britains Last Wildnerness” where sea, sky, mountain dance with light
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Wonderful atmospherics today on #Knoydart “Britains Last Wildnerness” where sea, sky, mountain dance with light
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
‘in the late afternoon the wind suddenly dropped for half an hour, and there was the quiet splendour of purpling hills and a foreground of silvered loch with the birches and pines showing black against a golden sunset’
Harry Griffin, Guardian Diary 1967 #naturewriting
Harry Griffin, Guardian Diary 1967 #naturewriting
November 10, 2025 at 6:58 AM
‘in the late afternoon the wind suddenly dropped for half an hour, and there was the quiet splendour of purpling hills and a foreground of silvered loch with the birches and pines showing black against a golden sunset’
Harry Griffin, Guardian Diary 1967 #naturewriting
Harry Griffin, Guardian Diary 1967 #naturewriting
Enjoyed today’s ‘A Write Highland Hoolie’ @ Mallaig Book Festival
Gravity of Feathers, Hebridean Baker, Coinneach MacLeod
Alexander McCall Smith,
#StKilda #NatureWriting #Gaelic #Story #Humour
Gravity of Feathers, Hebridean Baker, Coinneach MacLeod
Alexander McCall Smith,
#StKilda #NatureWriting #Gaelic #Story #Humour
November 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Enjoyed today’s ‘A Write Highland Hoolie’ @ Mallaig Book Festival
Gravity of Feathers, Hebridean Baker, Coinneach MacLeod
Alexander McCall Smith,
#StKilda #NatureWriting #Gaelic #Story #Humour
Gravity of Feathers, Hebridean Baker, Coinneach MacLeod
Alexander McCall Smith,
#StKilda #NatureWriting #Gaelic #Story #Humour
Under Ben Dorain, autumn sun highlights texture, felt through onomatopoetic prose of Duncan Ban MacIntyre:
“Gu stobanach stacanach
Slocanach laganach
Cnocanach cnapanach
Caiteanach ròmach,
Pasganach badanach
Bachlagach bòidheach”
(Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain)
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
“Gu stobanach stacanach
Slocanach laganach
Cnocanach cnapanach
Caiteanach ròmach,
Pasganach badanach
Bachlagach bòidheach”
(Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain)
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Under Ben Dorain, autumn sun highlights texture, felt through onomatopoetic prose of Duncan Ban MacIntyre:
“Gu stobanach stacanach
Slocanach laganach
Cnocanach cnapanach
Caiteanach ròmach,
Pasganach badanach
Bachlagach bòidheach”
(Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain)
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
“Gu stobanach stacanach
Slocanach laganach
Cnocanach cnapanach
Caiteanach ròmach,
Pasganach badanach
Bachlagach bòidheach”
(Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain)
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
Reposted by Martin Brown
Lovely blog on the stars, specifically the Pleiades - which if you are like me and look at stars but often forget their names, is one you've definitely been trying to remember recently
November arrives with bare trees, early sunsets and darkness, inviting us to do what humans have always done when the days grow short: gather close and tell stories …
Samhain greetings ...
November: The Season of Samhain & Story
My latest on RegenNotes ... Exploring Samhain across time, Bronze Age, Romans, Romantics & into the Future through Pleiades Culmination
fairsnape.substack.com/p/november-t...
#Samhain #NatureWriting #Pleiades #RegenFi
November: The Season of Samhain & Story
My latest on RegenNotes ... Exploring Samhain across time, Bronze Age, Romans, Romantics & into the Future through Pleiades Culmination
fairsnape.substack.com/p/november-t...
#Samhain #NatureWriting #Pleiades #RegenFi
November 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Lovely blog on the stars, specifically the Pleiades - which if you are like me and look at stars but often forget their names, is one you've definitely been trying to remember recently
November arrives with bare trees, early sunsets and darkness, inviting us to do what humans have always done when the days grow short: gather close and tell stories …
Samhain greetings ...
November: The Season of Samhain & Story
My latest on RegenNotes ... Exploring Samhain across time, Bronze Age, Romans, Romantics & into the Future through Pleiades Culmination
fairsnape.substack.com/p/november-t...
#Samhain #NatureWriting #Pleiades #RegenFi
November: The Season of Samhain & Story
My latest on RegenNotes ... Exploring Samhain across time, Bronze Age, Romans, Romantics & into the Future through Pleiades Culmination
fairsnape.substack.com/p/november-t...
#Samhain #NatureWriting #Pleiades #RegenFi
November: The Season of Samhain & Story
The Pleiades - a clock of time.
fairsnape.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:31 AM
November arrives with bare trees, early sunsets and darkness, inviting us to do what humans have always done when the days grow short: gather close and tell stories …
Samhain greetings ...
November: The Season of Samhain & Story
My latest on RegenNotes ... Exploring Samhain across time, Bronze Age, Romans, Romantics & into the Future through Pleiades Culmination
fairsnape.substack.com/p/november-t...
#Samhain #NatureWriting #Pleiades #RegenFi
November: The Season of Samhain & Story
My latest on RegenNotes ... Exploring Samhain across time, Bronze Age, Romans, Romantics & into the Future through Pleiades Culmination
fairsnape.substack.com/p/november-t...
#Samhain #NatureWriting #Pleiades #RegenFi
November: The Season of Samhain & Story
The Pleiades - a clock of time.
fairsnape.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Samhain greetings ...
November: The Season of Samhain & Story
My latest on RegenNotes ... Exploring Samhain across time, Bronze Age, Romans, Romantics & into the Future through Pleiades Culmination
fairsnape.substack.com/p/november-t...
#Samhain #NatureWriting #Pleiades #RegenFi
November: The Season of Samhain & Story
My latest on RegenNotes ... Exploring Samhain across time, Bronze Age, Romans, Romantics & into the Future through Pleiades Culmination
fairsnape.substack.com/p/november-t...
#Samhain #NatureWriting #Pleiades #RegenFi
The call of the Curlew catches the air over Morecambe Bay.
#charcoal #pleinair #sketching from Hest Bank looking to Cumbrian fells, these evocative calls, rising, falling, bubbling, quickens the heart, calms the soul, lifts the spirit.
💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
#charcoal #pleinair #sketching from Hest Bank looking to Cumbrian fells, these evocative calls, rising, falling, bubbling, quickens the heart, calms the soul, lifts the spirit.
💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
October 27, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The call of the Curlew catches the air over Morecambe Bay.
#charcoal #pleinair #sketching from Hest Bank looking to Cumbrian fells, these evocative calls, rising, falling, bubbling, quickens the heart, calms the soul, lifts the spirit.
💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
#charcoal #pleinair #sketching from Hest Bank looking to Cumbrian fells, these evocative calls, rising, falling, bubbling, quickens the heart, calms the soul, lifts the spirit.
💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
Tonight the skies are red,
So red they fill my eyes Sundown on barren words that can't describe
Your island paradise
Runrig: In Search of Angels
Some experiences like sunsets can be transcendent, exceeding our ability to capture in language
#scape #skyscape #sunscape #naturewriting #BeaconFell
So red they fill my eyes Sundown on barren words that can't describe
Your island paradise
Runrig: In Search of Angels
Some experiences like sunsets can be transcendent, exceeding our ability to capture in language
#scape #skyscape #sunscape #naturewriting #BeaconFell
October 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Tonight the skies are red,
So red they fill my eyes Sundown on barren words that can't describe
Your island paradise
Runrig: In Search of Angels
Some experiences like sunsets can be transcendent, exceeding our ability to capture in language
#scape #skyscape #sunscape #naturewriting #BeaconFell
So red they fill my eyes Sundown on barren words that can't describe
Your island paradise
Runrig: In Search of Angels
Some experiences like sunsets can be transcendent, exceeding our ability to capture in language
#scape #skyscape #sunscape #naturewriting #BeaconFell