The first session with volunteers after the launch took place on a chilly but sunny Thursday afternoon mid November - and what a great turn out!
Not only did two schools turn up but the sun shone too! We soon had a ...
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Howden Walled Garden gets off to a felling start!
The new Green Gym in the Walled Garden in Howden was launched at the end of October last year with volunteers coming out as of the middle of November.The project is in full swing now with a second session that started just ...
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Focal Point
Today we were at the Focal Point Day Centre in Drumchapel, tending to their gardens. Not only did we manage to get all the work done but the centre treated us like royalty with hot soup and then later at tea break we were ...
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Kidney Spot at Dumbreck
Dumbreck Marshes (aka the Bog of Eternal Stench) is not the cooshiest site to work (mattocking out willows), but recently we were reminded of its value as a habitat. A couple of weeks ago we found a ladybird of some ...
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Composting starts here
Well done to the volunteers at the Linwood Community Gardens, who this week completed work on the composting bin, which is also now in situ, so we can start to fill it with garden waste and get that all fired up and breaking ...
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