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A Greener Huntly
People for nature
and nature for people
A shared vision
Picture a vibrant tapestry of green spaces weaving through our town, including gardens, verges, riversides and woodlands. Brimming with wildlife havens, flourishing food forests, and picturesque spots for all your outdoor pursuits.
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When working together, we can cultivate the resources we need to bring this vision to life. Placing Huntly firmly on the map as a must-visit destination. Celebrating our rich agricultural heritage, soaking in the breath taking scenery, and championing the green future we're crafting for Huntly and its abundant countryside.
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Greener Huntly is the overarching project of the Huntly Greenspace Collective. A social enterprise that unites individuals, initiatives and businesses that share our vision of a greener Huntly. We offer a growing range of green products and services to fund our community work.
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We prioritise nature and people over profits. Being a social enterprise, we pay our team fairly, use local supply chains where possible, and reduce our environmental impact whenever we can. Any profit goes towards our community work or towards growing our collective - and it is our members, the local community, that decide where the money goes.
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People for nature
When you choose our services, you're not just sprucing up your garden—you’re helping Huntly go greener! Your support helps us fund local projects that improve green spaces, creating wildlife corridors that are great for nature all around town. Plus, when we take care of the environment, we create a better place to live. Let’s make Huntly a greener, together.
Huntly, Aberdeenshire, is a small market town set within thriving agricultural land. The Clashmach, Battle Hill and Binn Forest, together with the Deveron and Bogie rivers, create a dramatic scene for the green areas spread around and beyond the town. Go for a walk here, and you will soon be enchanted.
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We want to lead people intuitively through Huntly, guiding them on a journey exploring the range of habitats. This vision is rooted in the work by the Town Team Huntly: A campus for learning and play, which was the result of an in-depth town-wide consultation. ​The document describes the potential of this beautiful green space:
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"As part of a process known as rewilding, a habitat mosaic of orchard, meadow, scrub, tree group and wetland can be created, in what is currently a relatively dormant space. This can be done through making use of organic and less intensive land management practices. It would provide a different landscape to explore and learn. Alongside a natural evolution of this large space, unique items of interest can be introduced, including interpretation of the habitats and wildlife, natural play items or public art. It can also sit well alongside recreational uses..."
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We, the collective, want to take things one step further. We will explore how the green space itself can support business, in turn funding the work needed to bring this vision to life. Because we believe that a greener future and financial sustainability can go hand in hand.
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