Community Gardening in Cooper Park We’ve had two of our bi-monthly community gardening sessions in Cooper Park, at the end of January and end of March. Individuals and families joined us to plant soft fruit bushes in a new bed next to ‘our’ raised beds in the park, as well …
Edintore Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund has launched! Applications are invited from groups, organisations and social enterprises for local projects with social or environmental benefits. To be eligible, groups must have a constitution (governing document) and a bank account in the group’s name with at least 2 unrelated signatories. Priority will …
Fruit seems to be the main theme of the last few weeks of Grow Elgin’s work. We continued to supply and help plant fruit trees, a variety of apples, pears and plums, and establish little orchards around Elgin. New Elgin Primary school planted half a dozen fruit trees in their …
Grow Elgin November Blog 2016 We’ve worked with a variety of groups on a variety of activities, indoor and out this month, getting outdoors while we still can! We helped Spynie carehome build a herb spiral using recycled bricks in one of their courtyard gardens, where the herbs will not …
REAP’s Grow Elgin project will be having a stall at Elgin Academy’s Farmers Market on Friday 16 December from 10am to 2.30pm, promoting local food growing and with our ‘Where in the world?’ activity about reducing our climate change impact.
A bit of a bumper blog for September and October as we haven’t had an update for a while, though if you’d like to see regular shorter updates the Grow Elgin project has a weekly (usually!) post on our Facebook page. Busy times for the Grow Elgin project as the …
As a picture is reputed to speak a thousand words, we’ll let some photos we took during July do most of the talking with some short descriptions, to let you know what the Grow Elgin project has been up to during July At ENABLE (a charity for adults with learning …
The Grow Elgin project continues to find its way into new places to grow food locally with all kinds of people. The last week in June found us at Spynie Carehome, where we were joined by some of the residents and their carers to harvest the last of the spinach, …
REAP’s raised bed video is now available for viewing here, with thanks to Christy Kail Film and the Climate Challenge Fund. We also have our raised beds leaflet which is available for download as a pdf here.
It’s been a while since the last Grow Elgin Blog, but that’s not to say we haven’t been busy! The good news is that we have secured funding for the Grow Elgin project for another year, which means more community gardens, more raised beds in schools, more home composting around …
