Martin Brown
@martinbr.bsky.social
Traveller on a regenerative journey.
Sharing Stories, Nature Writing & Watercolour
Host @ Zoom Regenerative
Writer: @ Regen/Notes +
Author: FutuREstorative +
Place: Forest of Bowland
More at
https://fairsnape.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/martin_brown
Sharing Stories, Nature Writing & Watercolour
Host @ Zoom Regenerative
Writer: @ Regen/Notes +
Author: FutuREstorative +
Place: Forest of Bowland
More at
https://fairsnape.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/martin_brown
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
💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting #scape 12/12
December 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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
💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting #scape 12/12
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
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
December 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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
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
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...
Regenerative #livingbuildingsdaily sort of adventure calendar
open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...
December 10, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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...
Regenerative #livingbuildingsdaily sort of adventure calendar
open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...
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...
'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...
December 9, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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...
'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...
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...
#LivingBuildingsDaily
fairsnape.substack.com/p/mycelium-a...
December 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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...
#LivingBuildingsDaily
fairsnape.substack.com/p/mycelium-a...
December 7, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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
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
December 6, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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
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
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
Join the 31 Day #Symbiogenesis (sort of advent) Calendar
"... Each day invites a sense of emergence ..."
#LivingBuildingsDaily
December 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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
Join the 31 Day #Symbiogenesis (sort of advent) Calendar
"... Each day invites a sense of emergence ..."
#LivingBuildingsDaily
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
Join the 31 Day #Symbiogenesis (sort of advent) Calendar
"... Each day invites a sense of emergence ..."
#LivingBuildingsDaily
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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
Join the 31 Day #Symbiogenesis (sort of advent) Calendar
"... Each day invites a sense of emergence ..."
#LivingBuildingsDaily
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
… 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
December 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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
… 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
A little November Herb Robert and Gorse colour spotted this week, … @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
#BeaconFell #Lancashire
#BeaconFell #Lancashire
November 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
A little November Herb Robert and Gorse colour spotted this week, … @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
#BeaconFell #Lancashire
#BeaconFell #Lancashire
I caught this evening …
Windhover, Kestrel, against Earth shadow at sundown, a connection to wild, spiritual, transcendent Hopkins prose
#NoticingNature #NatureWriting
Windhover, Kestrel, against Earth shadow at sundown, a connection to wild, spiritual, transcendent Hopkins prose
#NoticingNature #NatureWriting
November 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I caught this evening …
Windhover, Kestrel, against Earth shadow at sundown, a connection to wild, spiritual, transcendent Hopkins prose
#NoticingNature #NatureWriting
Windhover, Kestrel, against Earth shadow at sundown, a connection to wild, spiritual, transcendent Hopkins prose
#NoticingNature #NatureWriting
… across the sound, Cuillin of Skye and Rum compete for attention silohetted purple before the setting haze of sienna sunlight
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
… across the sound, Cuillin of Skye and Rum compete for attention silohetted purple before the setting haze of sienna sunlight
Wonderful atmospherics today on #Knoydart “Britains Last Wildnerness” where sea, sky, mountain dance with light
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Wonderful atmospherics today on #Knoydart “Britains Last Wildnerness” where sea, sky, mountain dance with light
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
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
Gravity of Feathers, Hebridean Baker, Coinneach MacLeod
Alexander McCall Smith,
#StKilda #NatureWriting #Gaelic #Story #Humour
November 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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
Gravity of Feathers, Hebridean Baker, Coinneach MacLeod
Alexander McCall Smith,
#StKilda #NatureWriting #Gaelic #Story #Humour
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
#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
October 27, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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
#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
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
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
October 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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
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
Light, the story within ...
Exploring Gaelic circadian expressions.
#watercolour #naturewriting
my latest #RegenNotes substack
fairsnape.substack.com/p/light-the-...
Exploring Gaelic circadian expressions.
#watercolour #naturewriting
my latest #RegenNotes substack
fairsnape.substack.com/p/light-the-...
October 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Light, the story within ...
Exploring Gaelic circadian expressions.
#watercolour #naturewriting
my latest #RegenNotes substack
fairsnape.substack.com/p/light-the-...
Exploring Gaelic circadian expressions.
#watercolour #naturewriting
my latest #RegenNotes substack
fairsnape.substack.com/p/light-the-...
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...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/zr-77-meta...
October 14, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/zr-77-meta...
#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
#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
October 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
#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
#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
An ancient conversation, a secret whispered, symbiosis in a micro metropolis … relishing in delights of exploring garden moss, lichen, slime mold and more in such a colourful micro ecosystem 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting
September 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
An ancient conversation, a secret whispered, symbiosis in a micro metropolis … relishing in delights of exploring garden moss, lichen, slime mold and more in such a colourful micro ecosystem 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting
Feeling the Pull of the Equinox with thoughts on balance and reciprocity
💚 #dailynature #naturewriting #ForestOfBowland
(September Sunrise from Beacon Fell looking towards Pendle Hill)
💚 #dailynature #naturewriting #ForestOfBowland
(September Sunrise from Beacon Fell looking towards Pendle Hill)
September 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Feeling the Pull of the Equinox with thoughts on balance and reciprocity
💚 #dailynature #naturewriting #ForestOfBowland
(September Sunrise from Beacon Fell looking towards Pendle Hill)
💚 #dailynature #naturewriting #ForestOfBowland
(September Sunrise from Beacon Fell looking towards Pendle Hill)
Nature’s #angles
Where every pattern,
every line, every angle
shines in reciprocity.
An interconnected
web of life,
in autumn's heather,
hues of purple,
mauve, and pink.
💚 #dailynature #naturewriting
#BlueSkyArtShow #web #photography #nature
#NoticingNature
#PoetryWithUs
Where every pattern,
every line, every angle
shines in reciprocity.
An interconnected
web of life,
in autumn's heather,
hues of purple,
mauve, and pink.
💚 #dailynature #naturewriting
#BlueSkyArtShow #web #photography #nature
#NoticingNature
#PoetryWithUs
September 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Nature’s #angles
Where every pattern,
every line, every angle
shines in reciprocity.
An interconnected
web of life,
in autumn's heather,
hues of purple,
mauve, and pink.
💚 #dailynature #naturewriting
#BlueSkyArtShow #web #photography #nature
#NoticingNature
#PoetryWithUs
Where every pattern,
every line, every angle
shines in reciprocity.
An interconnected
web of life,
in autumn's heather,
hues of purple,
mauve, and pink.
💚 #dailynature #naturewriting
#BlueSkyArtShow #web #photography #nature
#NoticingNature
#PoetryWithUs
Blustery on Bowland Fells this week … loving the simple feel of #pleinair charcoal sketching
Friday #Scape #landscape #ForestOfBowland #Fairsnape
#Charcoal #BlueskyArt
#PoetryWithinUs
Friday #Scape #landscape #ForestOfBowland #Fairsnape
#Charcoal #BlueskyArt
#PoetryWithinUs
September 19, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Blustery on Bowland Fells this week … loving the simple feel of #pleinair charcoal sketching
Friday #Scape #landscape #ForestOfBowland #Fairsnape
#Charcoal #BlueskyArt
#PoetryWithinUs
Friday #Scape #landscape #ForestOfBowland #Fairsnape
#Charcoal #BlueskyArt
#PoetryWithinUs
Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #currentread #RogerDeakin
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #currentread #RogerDeakin
September 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #currentread #RogerDeakin
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #currentread #RogerDeakin