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
Humans are not simply consumers,
We are Makers, We are Poets.
Satish Kumar, Love Economy, a beautiful slow read in latest Resurgence & Ecology
#dailynature #naturewriting
We are Makers, We are Poets.
Satish Kumar, Love Economy, a beautiful slow read in latest Resurgence & Ecology
#dailynature #naturewriting
December 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Humans are not simply consumers,
We are Makers, We are Poets.
Satish Kumar, Love Economy, a beautiful slow read in latest Resurgence & Ecology
#dailynature #naturewriting
We are Makers, We are Poets.
Satish Kumar, Love Economy, a beautiful slow read in latest Resurgence & Ecology
#dailynature #naturewriting
Winter Solstice: Earth Renewed
Hush.
This is the place,
where endings loosen.
They spiral but do not break.
These hinge time words, not gifts, are for carrying,
The sun has turned.
It turns whether we speak,
or not.
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...
Hush.
This is the place,
where endings loosen.
They spiral but do not break.
These hinge time words, not gifts, are for carrying,
The sun has turned.
It turns whether we speak,
or not.
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...
Winter Solstice : Earth Renewed
Words spoken by Morwenna at Bleasdale Circle
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December 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Winter Solstice: Earth Renewed
Hush.
This is the place,
where endings loosen.
They spiral but do not break.
These hinge time words, not gifts, are for carrying,
The sun has turned.
It turns whether we speak,
or not.
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...
Hush.
This is the place,
where endings loosen.
They spiral but do not break.
These hinge time words, not gifts, are for carrying,
The sun has turned.
It turns whether we speak,
or not.
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...
Conscious Design for Life
Day 21: The winter solstice invites us to pause. What changes when your design intention shifts from imposing engineered order to cultivating biodiversity and tending relationships?”
#livingbuildingsdaily #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 21/12
Day 21: The winter solstice invites us to pause. What changes when your design intention shifts from imposing engineered order to cultivating biodiversity and tending relationships?”
#livingbuildingsdaily #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 21/12
December 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Conscious Design for Life
Day 21: The winter solstice invites us to pause. What changes when your design intention shifts from imposing engineered order to cultivating biodiversity and tending relationships?”
#livingbuildingsdaily #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 21/12
Day 21: The winter solstice invites us to pause. What changes when your design intention shifts from imposing engineered order to cultivating biodiversity and tending relationships?”
#livingbuildingsdaily #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 21/12
Day 20/31: What if microbial literacy, teaching about beneficial bacteria, became standard curriculum?
How would this transform our approach to creating healthy school environments?
Shifting our understanding of nature connectedness
#livingbuildingsdaily #dailynature #naturewriting
How would this transform our approach to creating healthy school environments?
Shifting our understanding of nature connectedness
#livingbuildingsdaily #dailynature #naturewriting
December 20, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Day 20/31: What if microbial literacy, teaching about beneficial bacteria, became standard curriculum?
How would this transform our approach to creating healthy school environments?
Shifting our understanding of nature connectedness
#livingbuildingsdaily #dailynature #naturewriting
How would this transform our approach to creating healthy school environments?
Shifting our understanding of nature connectedness
#livingbuildingsdaily #dailynature #naturewriting
Early morning, hints of lightening sky to SE, Jupiter, Vega, Capella all bright, fading Pleiades sisters set on dark NW horizon. The still not-quite-frost morning sky then scratched by the super bright ISS orbiting crawl eastwards
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 20/12
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 20/12
December 20, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Early morning, hints of lightening sky to SE, Jupiter, Vega, Capella all bright, fading Pleiades sisters set on dark NW horizon. The still not-quite-frost morning sky then scratched by the super bright ISS orbiting crawl eastwards
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 20/12
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 20/12
Connecting with the unseen microbial nature world, beyond letting nature in to living with nature …
Day 19: Imagine redefining ‘clean’ as a healthy balanced microbial ecosystem rather than a sterile environment.
💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting #livingbuildingsdaily 19/12
Day 19: Imagine redefining ‘clean’ as a healthy balanced microbial ecosystem rather than a sterile environment.
💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting #livingbuildingsdaily 19/12
December 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Connecting with the unseen microbial nature world, beyond letting nature in to living with nature …
Day 19: Imagine redefining ‘clean’ as a healthy balanced microbial ecosystem rather than a sterile environment.
💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting #livingbuildingsdaily 19/12
Day 19: Imagine redefining ‘clean’ as a healthy balanced microbial ecosystem rather than a sterile environment.
💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting #livingbuildingsdaily 19/12
… yet even ‘new’ words will not be the word, but seeds that grow as a living lexicon, that like the ecology it seeks to describe, emerges, grows, breathes, lives
Spirals, not linear, tidy or tightly defined but messy with liminal edges that morph & bleed into each other #dailynature #naturewriting
Spirals, not linear, tidy or tightly defined but messy with liminal edges that morph & bleed into each other #dailynature #naturewriting
December 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
… yet even ‘new’ words will not be the word, but seeds that grow as a living lexicon, that like the ecology it seeks to describe, emerges, grows, breathes, lives
Spirals, not linear, tidy or tightly defined but messy with liminal edges that morph & bleed into each other #dailynature #naturewriting
Spirals, not linear, tidy or tightly defined but messy with liminal edges that morph & bleed into each other #dailynature #naturewriting
Maybe the question is what micro-nature life we invite in. Microbes responding with how we pause, rush, repair, breathe, plan, live. Different commons, unseen players, shaping atmospheres that teach us, we are still learning in design for life.
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
… going beyond the advent calendar and finish 2025 with this series of daily reflection prompts that will challenge and enlighten what living buildings can be.
#lvingbuildingsdaily
fairsnape.substack.com/p/mycelium-a...
#lvingbuildingsdaily
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December 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Maybe the question is what micro-nature life we invite in. Microbes responding with how we pause, rush, repair, breathe, plan, live. Different commons, unseen players, shaping atmospheres that teach us, we are still learning in design for life.
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
… going beyond the advent calendar and finish 2025 with this series of daily reflection prompts that will challenge and enlighten what living buildings can be.
#lvingbuildingsdaily
fairsnape.substack.com/p/mycelium-a...
#lvingbuildingsdaily
fairsnape.substack.com/p/mycelium-a...
December 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
… going beyond the advent calendar and finish 2025 with this series of daily reflection prompts that will challenge and enlighten what living buildings can be.
#lvingbuildingsdaily
fairsnape.substack.com/p/mycelium-a...
#lvingbuildingsdaily
fairsnape.substack.com/p/mycelium-a...
And breathe, healing living building, rooted in unseen world of microbial life. Reciprocating positives, meeting negatives in balance.
Ah, intricate beauty, as moss gardens, as felt in meadow, biodiverse as rainforest, encompassing as cosmos
💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 14/12
Ah, intricate beauty, as moss gardens, as felt in meadow, biodiverse as rainforest, encompassing as cosmos
💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 14/12
Day 14: What if your building was actually a garden, cultivating beneficial microbes the way you’d grow herbs on a windowsill?
#livingbuildingsdaily
fairsnape.substack.com/p/mycelium-a...
#livingbuildingsdaily
fairsnape.substack.com/p/mycelium-a...
December 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
And breathe, healing living building, rooted in unseen world of microbial life. Reciprocating positives, meeting negatives in balance.
Ah, intricate beauty, as moss gardens, as felt in meadow, biodiverse as rainforest, encompassing as cosmos
💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 14/12
Ah, intricate beauty, as moss gardens, as felt in meadow, biodiverse as rainforest, encompassing as cosmos
💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 14/12
Day 14: What if your building was actually a garden, cultivating beneficial microbes the way you’d grow herbs on a windowsill?
#livingbuildingsdaily
fairsnape.substack.com/p/mycelium-a...
#livingbuildingsdaily
fairsnape.substack.com/p/mycelium-a...
December 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Day 14: What if your building was actually a garden, cultivating beneficial microbes the way you’d grow herbs on a windowsill?
#livingbuildingsdaily
fairsnape.substack.com/p/mycelium-a...
#livingbuildingsdaily
fairsnape.substack.com/p/mycelium-a...
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
Reposted by Martin Brown
This week's Substack celebrates the ongoing #DailyNature community challenge
Featuring
@charlie-alice-raya.org
@noswpod.bsky.social
@martinbr.bsky.social
@petergknight.bsky.social
@tinekerdraon.bsky.social
Thank you 🙏
Be featured next week by sharing your own #DailyNature
#NatureWriting
Featuring
@charlie-alice-raya.org
@noswpod.bsky.social
@martinbr.bsky.social
@petergknight.bsky.social
@tinekerdraon.bsky.social
Thank you 🙏
Be featured next week by sharing your own #DailyNature
#NatureWriting
A roundup of this week's #DailyNature Challenge with some highlighted posts from BlueSky, Instagram & elsewhere 💙
As the solstice looms closer 'where is the ice'? Is the question of the moment ❄️
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#NatureWriting #UKCanals #Substack #Winter #Owls #Narrowboat #blog #podcast
As the solstice looms closer 'where is the ice'? Is the question of the moment ❄️
tinyurl.com/DailyNature1
#NatureWriting #UKCanals #Substack #Winter #Owls #Narrowboat #blog #podcast
Weekly Nature Review: December #DailyNature 1st – 7th
Top nature moments from this week: tawny owls, lunar rings and the best of #DailyNature challenge contributions.
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December 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This week's Substack celebrates the ongoing #DailyNature community challenge
Featuring
@charlie-alice-raya.org
@noswpod.bsky.social
@martinbr.bsky.social
@petergknight.bsky.social
@tinekerdraon.bsky.social
Thank you 🙏
Be featured next week by sharing your own #DailyNature
#NatureWriting
Featuring
@charlie-alice-raya.org
@noswpod.bsky.social
@martinbr.bsky.social
@petergknight.bsky.social
@tinekerdraon.bsky.social
Thank you 🙏
Be featured next week by sharing your own #DailyNature
#NatureWriting
Corridors (a human construct) shift to spirals, from a centre of pulse, Radiating uneven petals, determined by wind, shade, soil, human neglect.
Outward edges, liminal as only nature knows, connect through adjacency,
As clusters of what nourishes not what is mapped.
💚 #dailynature #naturewriting
Outward edges, liminal as only nature knows, connect through adjacency,
As clusters of what nourishes not what is mapped.
💚 #dailynature #naturewriting
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 1:36 PM
Corridors (a human construct) shift to spirals, from a centre of pulse, Radiating uneven petals, determined by wind, shade, soil, human neglect.
Outward edges, liminal as only nature knows, connect through adjacency,
As clusters of what nourishes not what is mapped.
💚 #dailynature #naturewriting
Outward edges, liminal as only nature knows, connect through adjacency,
As clusters of what nourishes not what is mapped.
💚 #dailynature #naturewriting
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...
Let’s tread lightly here, there’s asking and listening with the land and its community.
What whispers, what heals, what reciprocates?
Take this slow emergence, not rushing, not seeking tidy cosmetic
💚 #livingbuildingsdaily Day8 #dailynature #naturewriting
What whispers, what heals, what reciprocates?
Take this slow emergence, not rushing, not seeking tidy cosmetic
💚 #livingbuildingsdaily Day8 #dailynature #naturewriting
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 5:17 PM
Let’s tread lightly here, there’s asking and listening with the land and its community.
What whispers, what heals, what reciprocates?
Take this slow emergence, not rushing, not seeking tidy cosmetic
💚 #livingbuildingsdaily Day8 #dailynature #naturewriting
What whispers, what heals, what reciprocates?
Take this slow emergence, not rushing, not seeking tidy cosmetic
💚 #livingbuildingsdaily Day8 #dailynature #naturewriting
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
‘But pause here between forest and moorland, and you will see a quiet revolution rising from the earth’
Merryn Glover beautiful #NatureWriting on the Cairngorms ancient forest liminal and ecotone spaces evoke Nan Shepherds Living Mountain.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Merryn Glover beautiful #NatureWriting on the Cairngorms ancient forest liminal and ecotone spaces evoke Nan Shepherds Living Mountain.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Country diary: Green shoots in the ancient forest | Country diary
Glen Einich, Cairngorms: A wintry walk in the Rothiemurchus woodland is always glorious. To see some of its barer expanses starting to recover tops it off
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
‘But pause here between forest and moorland, and you will see a quiet revolution rising from the earth’
Merryn Glover beautiful #NatureWriting on the Cairngorms ancient forest liminal and ecotone spaces evoke Nan Shepherds Living Mountain.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Merryn Glover beautiful #NatureWriting on the Cairngorms ancient forest liminal and ecotone spaces evoke Nan Shepherds Living Mountain.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Day 4: Could stormwater systems double as wetland corridors, purifying water through living chains of soil & roots?
... What imagery, feelings, questions, words, interventions rise for you in letting cities and towns breathe? #LivingBuildingsDaily #Symbiogenesis
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... What imagery, feelings, questions, words, interventions rise for you in letting cities and towns breathe? #LivingBuildingsDaily #Symbiogenesis
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Mycelium and Masonry: December Reflections on Regenerative Design
31 Day Calendar Prompts for Living Buildings
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December 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Day 4: Could stormwater systems double as wetland corridors, purifying water through living chains of soil & roots?
... What imagery, feelings, questions, words, interventions rise for you in letting cities and towns breathe? #LivingBuildingsDaily #Symbiogenesis
open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...
... What imagery, feelings, questions, words, interventions rise for you in letting cities and towns breathe? #LivingBuildingsDaily #Symbiogenesis
open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...
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
In the last light of day,
A still time on the fell.
A bird calls above.
You turn.
Your inner horizon shifts.
You are rearranged,
just slightly, but enough.
💚 #DailyNature #NoticingNature
A still time on the fell.
A bird calls above.
You turn.
Your inner horizon shifts.
You are rearranged,
just slightly, but enough.
💚 #DailyNature #NoticingNature
December 3, 2025 at 7:31 AM
In the last light of day,
A still time on the fell.
A bird calls above.
You turn.
Your inner horizon shifts.
You are rearranged,
just slightly, but enough.
💚 #DailyNature #NoticingNature
A still time on the fell.
A bird calls above.
You turn.
Your inner horizon shifts.
You are rearranged,
just slightly, but enough.
💚 #DailyNature #NoticingNature