This year the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens has been running a campaign called 'Local Heroes' as part of their Growing Together (GT) project. The aim is to get more people actively supporting city farms, community gardens and…
A charity metal detecting dig was organised recently on Sunday 17 September 2017, to help raise money through donations for the Ninewells Community Garden by volunteer David Drummond, with permission kindly given by farmer Michael Arbuckle to use a couple…
It's our annual open day next Sunday! We’ll have lots of activities for all the family, including drawing competition, metal detecting, herbal activities and yoga as well as our usual plant and produce sale and home baking. Parking will be…
Diabetes Out There (DOT) is a specialist service for children and young people with type 1 diabetes. They are trialling an innovative new monthly garden clinic, and last month saw the inaugural workshop. The children engaged in activities focused around…
We had a great session last week where we were exploring possible future directions for the garden - as well as looking at the obstacles we face. There were no shortage of ideas! Everyone had the chance to suggest new…
When I was admitted to Ninewells Hospital last October I was fortunate enough to be given a bed beside a window with a magnificent view – not only overlooking a wide silvery stretch of the Tay estuary but also some…
Tuesday 31st January 11am: planning a grass-free lawn. We are hoping to give our orchard area a makeover by planting a low maintenance herbal lawn under the trees. Come along to an initial meeting to find out more and share…
"After volunteering at the garden for a time it seemed natural to get involved with the committee as a trustee when asked if I would be interested. This was a new experience for me having never been a trustee before. …
If you visit the garden, one of the first things you will notice is our 'wild meadow' - which is a really polite way of describing the area around our fruit trees. We sowed this section with a perennial wildflower…
