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In this week’s Scotland Outdoors podcast Helen Needham chats to Dr Mads Fischer-Moller, Professor of Food Policy at Scotland’s Rural College about food production. We hear an excerpt where she asks what kind of diet is most sustainable for the planet.

Adam Watson was one of the most pre-eminent Scottish ecologists of the 20th Century. He became a mentor to Iain Cameron, the snow patch hunter who we’ve featured in on Out of Doors. This week we hear archive of Adam in the Cairngorms as well as Iain’s fond memories of him.

We remind ourselves of the Scandinavian word friluftsliv which literally translates as open-air living, and how we can all add a bit of friluftsliv to our own lives, even in winter.

Voting for this year’s Woodland Trust’s UK Tree of the Year is open, we chat live to George Anderson about the Scottish nominees.

Mark is in Melrose visiting the Trimontium museum and site. As he finds out, Trimontium is the largest Roman fort and settlement north of Hadrian’s Wall and is the location of many significant Roman finds.

Forager and naturalist John Wright has a new book out called ‘A Spotter’s Guide to Countryside Mysteries’. Helen speaks to him about the art of walking slowly through the land and noticing the tiny details and figuring out why they might be significant.

Euan tells us the tale of how mistletoe became the plant that everyone wants to kiss underneath at this time of year!

Maud Start is in woodland in the Lothians with a sound artist who has created a digital drumkit made of sounds from the woods.

And Euan has another mystery bird for us. This one has a couple of different calls to tease us with.

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