Andrew Heald
Forester & tree farmer
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Inclusive landscape scale solutions
Regenerative bioeconomy
Sustainable cities
Works with the amazing Inovaland team
Lives in Edinburgh
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- This is really positive - very pleased for the team at Christie’s and their suppliers 🌱🌳🌲
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- Be quick, if you are interested in working with us in Brazil. We have had a lot of interest and will be closing later this week. 🇧🇷🌳 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
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- Happy Imbolc & St Brigid’s day - half way between the winter solstice and the spring equinox - almost made it through another northern winter. A bit grey but v warm & humid here in Accra 🇬🇭, not sure if the local Cailleach is out gathering firewood or staying at home
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- Lower carbon construction using locally sourced and sustainably grown timber. It makes sense in Uganda and in the UK. www.linkedin.com/posts/built-...
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- If we want more homes, better built, quicker and with a lower carbon footprint - then many of them are going to offsite construction and timber frame. We need to be growing more of that timber and board and insulation in the U.K. 🌲
- Spring is just around the corner …
- An exciting new opportunity with iNovaland® in Brazil - www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
- Agroforestry 🍷 🌳
- Strong agree with this thread. I had a lecturer (Aled Williams) at Cartefle college in Wrexham, spell out the global security implications of climate change to us in the v early 90’s.
- Well done to everyone involved with #LeithChooses - a great way of doing participatory decision making. Frustrating and concerning that so many essential organisations are having to chase a share of such a small amount of funding - £44,700. consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/leithcho...
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- Major new hotel development in Edinburgh. Council has 2030 climate neutrality targets - yet Dakota Hotels makes no mention of carbon or sustainability on there information boards (see link below). Demolish and rebuild, demolish and rebuild …
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- Some very Turneresque skies over #Edinburgh this afternoon
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- Reposted by Andrew Heald📣PhD closing 26 Jan🌳 If you're interested in sustainable farming and think trees are the 🐝s knees, then join us @uniofreading.bsky.social for a PhD co-designing agroforestry systems with farmers🚜 Our website: www.trees-in-fields-network.co.uk The PhD: research.reading.ac.uk/foodbiosyste...
- Concerning and disappointing. "Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) has not been so lucky, with its funding cut once again. Just £17.8m has been allocated to the government agency for the year ahead, short of the £37.5 of 2024/25 and £29.8m of 2025/26."
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- My time on the "Expert Committee on Forest Science" is coming to an end, and the Committee is now recruiting for an experienced forestry sector person to take my place. I am very much not an academic or a scientist, and I've thoroughly enjoyed my time on the Committee.
- 🔎✨We are looking for two new Committee members to join the Forestry Commission Expert Committee on Forest Science. 📢 Closing Date: 30th January 2026 🔗 Apply online: ow.ly/6qEG50XTng0 #ForestryCommission #ForestResearch #ECFS
- An unscientific analysis of Christmas Trees in my part of #Edinburgh 100% Nordmanns (Abies nordmanniana) Usually there is a few Scots Pine and Norway Spruces but not this year 🌲🎄
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- #ORFC also has sessions on the growing demand for organic vegetables, horticulture and the future of U.K. orchards. All of which are important for plant based foods and drinks. U.K. livestock sector often seems more focussed on “threats” rather than on promoting high quality sustainable meat.
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- If the UK want's to get more woodlands into better management and to shift more forestry into CCF, then we need more smaller scale forwarders and also the skilled people to operate them.
- From the current Private Eye 🌲🌳
- A brief visit back to north Wales and St Sadwrn's Church in Henllan to say goodbye to an old friend Dr Jenny Rowley Williams.
- Reposted by Andrew Heald🌳There’s still time to apply for our forest governance story grants! We're offering £1,500 for stories on issues such as illegal logging, mining, agribusiness-driven deforestation, community forestry plus international forest and trade policies. Apply by January 11: loom.ly/zuFpZRM
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- Only 1 day left to see the “Resistance” exhibition at Edinburgh’s @nationalgalleries.bsky.social - it is v good. Including this great photo of @tomrobinson.com at the Rock Against Racism gigs and this wonderful The Beat photo, and many many more. www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/r...
- Really enjoyed “Muckle Be The Light”, at Portobello Town Hall, featuring conversation between Shirley Manson and Edinburgh’s Makar/Poet Laureate Michael Pedersen and Nicola Sturgeon, plus some wonderful tunes from Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) www.portobellotownhall.org/events/8saj3...
- Reposted by Andrew Heald📽️ State of Climate Action 2025 We need to take urgent #ClimateAction to avoid the worst of #ClimateChange! PL RP 🩷💚💙 Thank you! full #video▶️ youtu.be/SKx21eLLUqs report 📖 wri.org/research/sta... #climate #environment #cleanenergy #EndFossilFuels #ClimateChangeIsReal #Klima #ClimateActionNow
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- My time on the UK Govt's "Expert Committee on Forest Science" is coming to an end, and they are now recruiting for an experienced #forestry sector person to take my place. I am very much not an academic or a scientist, and i'd really encourage people to apply🌲🌳 🪵 www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
- Agreed - As a general rule, whether in agroforestry or in other silvicultural systems - I'd always prefer to have choice once the trees are established rather than wondering how i'll fill the gaps ..
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- Good to be back home in #Edinburgh Sunrise 9:20 Sunset 15:30
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- Always a bit sad to be leaving friends and family in South Africa. Hopefully spring has already arrived in Scotland whilst we’ve been away ;) 🇿🇦✈️🏴
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- 🌱🌳🌲 “… the effective utilization of lignocellulosic biomass which represents the most abundant and valuable biogenic source for green and sustainable #bioproducts.”
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- London Underground’s first modern tube station built using #timber construction has opened to passengers at Colindale on the Northern line. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/fro...
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- “Is it worth it? A new winter coat and shoes for the wife And a bicycle on the boy's birthday … “
- This is a really good listen 🌲🎄 As always, if we want more diverse productive forests in the U.K., then we need to be allowed to grow timber on a wider range of sites - ideally lower down the hill and on better soils.
- Interesting to see the regeneration of Fynbos vegetation at Silvermine Dam near Cape Town The area burnt in April 2025 (see link in last post), the orange flowers are Watsonia, and the burnt flower is a Protea There is quite a lot Bracken but it’s growth seems to be limited by shallow soils
- Reposted by Andrew HealdHadn’t seen this one before. The good news is that we have many smart solutions to address the surrendering of cities to cars that don’t involve tire spikes. But they DO involve actual political will, strengthened by public understanding of the serious need to act. Via @xkcd.com
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