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On the first weekend of the summer holidays, Huntly's green spaces came alive. Greener Huntly's first Nature Weeks ran over a fortnight at the start of the summer break, funded through the Neighbourhood Ecosystem Fund by Inspiring Scotland. The timing was deliberate: these are the weeks when children are free, families are looking for things to do, and the town's parks and river path are at their most used. The programme was designed to meet people where they already were and

Every seed is a survival strategy. It carries within it the accumulated adaptation of a plant variety to a particular place, climate, and soil — information that can't be recovered once it's lost. Huntly's Seed Library, run in partnership between Greener Huntly and One Seed Forward, is part of a growing movement to make sure that information stays in community hands.