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On this Saturday’s Out of Doors, Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith celebrate the joys of Spring.

The first agricultural show of the season takes place this weekend. Mark gets a preview of Fife Show in a beautiful setting near Cupar.

Crofters save the planet. Scotland’s crofting communities are set to be at the frontline of tackling Climate Change as they receive greater support for planting trees in areas of the country where there are few forests.

Award winning crofters Lynn Cassells and Sandra Baer are in the process of transforming Lynbreck Croft close to the Cairngorms into a fully sustainable and productive farm which has included planting 30,000 trees on open moorland. Sandra explains how they are using ancient techniques like the production of tree hay to achieve this.

Continuing our look at climate change, Becky Speight – Chief Executive of the Woodland Trust – observes an increase in the number of corporations getting in touch with them asking about carbon offset.

Euan has a go at casting on a river in the North of Scotland.

We celebrate one of Scotland’s most distinctive native plants which is carpeting our woodlands right now – the Scottish bluebell.

And Laura Cuthill hears the tale of ‘Light of Dumyat’ – originally a story by Rennie McOwan - and adapted by the Walking Theatre Company into a site specific show on Dumyat Hill near Stirling for local school children.