Category: volunteering
Events and volunteering Jan – Mar 2018
Our Garden Hero
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…
Digging Through the Past
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…
Co-design workshop and volunteer awards
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…
A ‘patient’ volunteer – Fran Gillespie
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…
Upcoming events
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…
Meet our newest Trustee
"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. …
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