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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Morning. From this place wet with rain, Crows gathering beyond the cross, Chattering life high in the Ash, Rowan Birch Beech sensing autumn, Waiting, apples & pears in orchard 31/7 #DailyNature #NatureWriting

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Reading 'England's 30by30 Delivery Plan to reverse nature decline' through a Regenerative Renaissance lens fairsnape.substack.com/p/sorting-na...

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

#WildflowerHour wild flower beauty seen this week, all bar one here in Inglewhite, Lancashire (Orchid in Cumbria)

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Feel the pulling of the wild: Abundance and Harmony Celebrating and Rambling #Beltane #RegenNotes

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Belated local blue hue for #wildflowerhour such a wonderful scent of bluebells in spring sun

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

#earthday26 #lakedistrict #fellwaking & time #Naturewriting and #sketching in stunning Earth-Scapes … An Aiteannach: The Place Where Junipers Grow

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Thinking this is Bog Star, Parnassia palustris, the county flower of Cumbria. On Long Rigg, Haweswater Nature Reserve yesterday #wildflowerhour

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Gorse … although not a #WoodlandPlants shrubs light up forest on Beacon Fell #WildflowerHour

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The earth is laughing in flowers … open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

#wildflowerhour #cowslipchallenge always a delight in late afternoon sun following rain (Primula veris … ‘of spring' ) #noticingnature #naturewriting

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Comfrey ... Symphytum, knitting bone, knitbone, boneset, bruisewort centuries of medicinal use stories. #storyplants for #wildflowerhour

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

6am and a glorious quartet greeting the grey dawn. Tempted to say ‘as a practice for the upcoming dawn chorus’, but these four aren’t just practicing - they just ‘are’. (And seems they started chorusing without the Wren who is a usual participant) #DailyNature #NatureWriting

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Hazel - a tree of wisdom and inspiration, that gives joy with early catkins - one of the very first pollen sources of the year and a lifeline for queen bumblebees now emerging from hibernation. #Wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

50 Words for Snow collapsed into a Wintry Mix ... further eroding our relationship with nature #RegenNotes #NatureWriting fairsnape.substack.com/p/50-words-f...

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Aliveness ... Living #regenerative buildings are alive, enable inhabitants’ aliveness ... creating conditions for connection through lived experience & felt knowledge through body and presence #naturewriting #regennotes #livingmountain #regenerativestewardship fairsnape.substack.com/p/slowly-i-h...

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Exploring, celebrating Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain How exquisite & sublime a passage, that through reflection has the power to shift thinking on regenerative, on biophilic design, aliveness & what are living buildings #regennotes #naturewriting read fairsnape.substack.com/p/slowly-i-h...

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

As the Earth turns toward dusk, Give it time, the sky will change, Sunset, Inglewhite, Lancashire. #naturewriting

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

January 6. Calendar date, human construct, not necessarily linked to shifts in light, temps, plant behaviour, animal activity. Our bodies respond to angle of light, how cold, how long darkness lasts, when sap starts moving, when birds change patterns … 💚 #wellbeing #noticingnature #naturewriting

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

#WildFlowerHour January. Midwinters Primrose, No urgency, With enough light, enough water, enough leaf nourishment, enough beauty. Nearby, snowdrop shoots await #NewYearPlantHunt

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

‘The new year isn’t a blank page but an invitation to continue December’s #Symbiogenesis reflections, as the conscious intent to participate in life’s weaving of separate entities into something entirely new and wonderful’ open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap... #NatureWriting

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Between the old and the new, there is only this breath. Under same stars, a new chapter begins. Present, peaceful and grounded. Happy New Year. Mindful New Year reflections (back garden sky image 29/12) #dailynature #naturewriting

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Our Symbiogenesis calendar continues asking Day 30: Where is the humility to acknowledge we’re designing with incomplete knowledge, intervening in living systems far more complex than we can fully comprehend? How can we embrace unknowing to thrive as nature? #dailynature #naturewriting

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Above the Cringle Ash, the pre dawn sky is laced with Yule ribbon. Ash, storied, in tale & layer, trunk links myths and realms, roots down deep to dark underworlds, canopy reaches up to weather, bird law and star listening. 💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting #inglewhite 24/12

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Day 20/31: What if microbial literacy, teaching about beneficial bacteria, became standard curriculum? How would this transform our approach to creating healthy school environments? Shifting our understanding of nature connectedness #livingbuildingsdaily #dailynature #naturewriting

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

… yet even ‘new’ words will not be the word, but seeds that grow as a living lexicon, that like the ecology it seeks to describe, emerges, grows, breathes, lives Spirals, not linear, tidy or tightly defined but messy with liminal edges that morph & bleed into each other #dailynature #naturewriting

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

… going beyond the advent calendar and finish 2025 with this series of daily reflection prompts that will challenge and enlighten what living buildings can be. #lvingbuildingsdaily fairsnape.substack.com/p/mycelium-a...

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Day 14: What if your building was actually a garden, cultivating beneficial microbes the way you’d grow herbs on a windowsill? #livingbuildingsdaily fairsnape.substack.com/p/mycelium-a...

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Ah Snowberry, Victorian transatlantic wanderers, hanging like cold moons haunting liminal spaces along the River Chew. Winter survivors overlooked for Holly and Mistle berries. 💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting #scape 12/12

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Buildings as Living Microbial Ecosystems Day 11: Imagine the space you are in as a thriving space for the billions of microbes that live there, some harmful, most neutral, many beneficial. Is this invisible community thriving or starving? #LivingBuildingsDaily

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Day 10: Where are the pinch points where a single pollinator corridor or chain of gardens could reconnect severed networks? Regenerative #livingbuildingsdaily sort of adventure calendar open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

A #LivingBuildingsDaily (sort of advent) Calendar ... Each day invites a sense of emergence... 'soil specifications still written as if soil biology of last 30 years never happened, still designing dead environments, wondering why they need life support' fairsnape.substack.com/p/mycelium-a...

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Day 8: How could parks be designed to support mycorrhizal connections rather than isolate each tree in sterile soil? #LivingBuildingsDaily fairsnape.substack.com/p/mycelium-a...

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

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

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

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

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

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

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

A little November Herb Robert and Gorse colour spotted this week, … @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #BeaconFell #Lancashire

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I caught this evening … Windhover, Kestrel, against Earth shadow at sundown, a connection to wild, spiritual, transcendent Hopkins prose #NoticingNature #NatureWriting

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

… across the sound, Cuillin of Skye and Rum compete for attention silohetted purple before the setting haze of sienna sunlight

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Wonderful atmospherics today on #Knoydart “Britains Last Wildnerness” where sea, sky, mountain dance with light #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

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

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

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

Yellows, crimsons, indigo sky at sunset.

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Light, the story within ... Exploring Gaelic circadian expressions. #watercolour #naturewriting my latest #RegenNotes substack fairsnape.substack.com/p/light-the-...

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Zoom Regenerative: Myths we live by. Metaphor as a tool for powerful change. Tonight 14/10 8pm with Annalise Lewis www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/zr-77-meta...

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

#BlueSkyArtShow #Relax #BlueSkyPhotography … ‘time in nature restores our spirits, calms our minds, and reconnects us with something essential and healing’ ‘tha fois san nàdar’ #LearningGaelic #naturewriting

Autumnal sunset from Beacon Fell, sun setting across grassland. Camera image has captured rays spreading out across the landscape. Grassland edged by pine forest.

Words ‘Tha fois san nàdar’ translates as ‘there is relaxation in nature’ (in my very basic learning of Scottish Gaelic)

Words ‘nature restores our spirits, calms our minds, and reconnects us with something essential and healing’ come from my writing.

Image taken on Beacon Fell Lancashire Sept 25

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