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Euan finds out about the Heading for the Scottish Hills website, a service managed by Scottish Natural Heritage along with other organisations including the Association of Deer Management Groups to provide details on deer stalking on estates between July and October.

Mark visits the James Hutton Institute at Invergowrie to hear about the science behind our raspberries.

We get an update from Scottish Natural Heritage about a controversial licence to cull ravens in Perthshire that has now been suspended.

Forvie Sands covers almost 1,000 hectares of sand dunes and dune heath between the North Sea and the estuary of the River Ythan. Mark finds out about the wildlife that it's home to from reserve officer, Daryl Short.

We mark the death of Sir Alex Fergusson, former Scottish Parliament Presiding Officer, MSP and hill farmer. We have another listen to an interview he did with Euan about his involvement in the campaign to make Galloway Scotland's third national park.

Mark is on Bute visiting a farm experimenting with growing a very interesting and unusual crop, truffles.

Helen visits West Harris Trust's community hub Talla Na Mara. It is home to a restaurant, gallery, offices and affordable housing, all built by the community owned trust.

Turriff show - the biggest two day show in Scotland is just round the corner, Euan chats to some of those involved in the organising of the event about how it all comes together.
The Rothesay Pavilion is a great example of art-deco architecture that over the years sadly fell into disrepair. However as Mark finds out, it's now in the hands of a charity and along with Argyll and Bute Council they are in the middle of restoring it to its former glory.

Euan shares a soundscape of noisy swallows that he recorded very early one morning after they woke him up.

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