Skills Offered
 Ecological field-work and preparing management plans for landscape or site.
Documentary research, oral sources, field-survey of ‘living-historic sites’, such as wood banks, hedge systems, rabbit warrens, pollarded trees or ancient habitats. .
 Prescribing plants and flowers for honeybee forage throughout the seasons for your climate, soil and landscape.
Design of farm and forest systems for honeybee forage.
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Heritage interpretation seeks to enthuse people about the past and present countryside.
We can write and design leaflets, brochures, display panels, audio presentations and exhibitions. |
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Preparing leaflets, brochures, display panels, audio presentations or exhibitions to enthuse people about their rural heritage. |
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Advice on setting up and carrying out an oral history project on rural affairs, such as the life of a reserve warden, farm or landscape history, development of wind farms or ‘soft’ flood control by deliberate breaching of sea-walls. |
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Advising on the species of edible wild plants available to grow or collect, and on involving landowners with proposals. |
Countryside Management Consultancy writes and designs anything from a flyer to a book to an exhibit.
The type and length of item is adapted to what you need and your own or other illustrations can be used. |
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The Team
Ruth is lucky to have the support of several other independent and experienced professionals who provide complementary input when needed.
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Susan Anderson provides me with first-class design skills. Susan is a trained and experienced Graphic Designer and runs Eikon Graphics from an Ayrshire village. She has worked for clients throughout the UK and designed exhibits in Europe. |
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John Andrews assists me when multi-media work is needed.
He has degrees in Multimedia Computing, Internet Technologies and Multimedia Communications and also works from an Ayrshire village. |
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Dr. Andrew Tittensor gives me information and advice on animal ecology, agriculture and computing problems. He has degrees in Zoology and Vertebrate Ecology, but is also a trained IT Developer. He has worked throughout the UK and travelled widely in Europe and maritime Canada. |
Experienced Transcribers in English and Scots carry out transcribing of oral history recordings for me.
Outwith the UK
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Dr. Derek Tittensor provides a useful world overview of ecology and resource management. He has degrees in Mathematics, Computational Science and Macroecology.
He is an experienced computer-modeller of ecosystems and species, and from his work-place at The United Nations World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, he travels globally. |
Ruth Tittensor’s experience outwith the UK include beekeeping visits to China, Japan and New Zealand; to Poland, The Czech and Slovak Republics and Sweden for studies of forests and cultural landscapes; to The Netherlands for discussions on farming-with-conservation and to France for discussions on Women in Science in the EU. |
