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Many hands make light work

Oh My Goodness. What is it that they say about Many Hands Making Light Work!! What a transformation is happening in the Community Food Garden Barren ground has been planted with trees and shrubs ….. and the view from the top of the garden has been transformed…

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Lots of planting at Ayton

One of the things that is really important at Abundant Borders is community engagement. A couple of months ago we left packets of vegetable seeds at Eyemouth High School. The young people sowed those seeds and today we collected lots of wonderful, healthy seedlings for planting. And the potatoes, onions […]

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Street Food Galore

We spent two fantastic days in Eyemouth as part of the Street Food event organised by Eyemouth Good Food Partnership, a fantastic group (of which we are members), which promotes healthy eating and community food events in the town. Day one was a lovely sunny day  with cooking demonstrations galore. […]

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Wildflower seed planting

Karen has been planting Wildflower seeds this morning. These are a selection of shade loving seeds – Kew call the selection Woodland Wonders so into the woods we went! So far, we have shared seeds from Kew with Eyemouth Early Learning Centre, Ayton Community Garden and Hawick Community Garden.

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Open Garden Success!

What a fantastic day we had on Saturday. The garden looked great and we had lots and lots of vistors – 68!! – and lots and lots of comment on how much had been achieved in a year! Huge thanks to Rhonda for setting the day up and to all […]

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Getting Started in the garden – at last!

The sun came out and so did the Hawick Community gardeners! It’s fantastic to see work starting. The 15 participants in the training course were hard at it all morning. It’s a big project but lots of enthusiasm and happy faces too!

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Preparing for Open Day

The Community Food Garden at Ayton is part of the Beanburn Open Gardens event, raising funds for another great charity – supporting St Abbs Lifeboat. It was a cold, grey day – not like May Bank Holiday at all, but we had a  wonderful afternoon tidying and sprucing so that […]

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PFC Day 2

Lots to talk about today! The PFC participants meet for Modulke v2 and start the day by enthusiastically discussing what they learned last week and what lessons they have already been able to incorporate into their own lives.

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PFC starts in Hawick

The first day of the Permaculture Foundation Course at Hawick started today. The course is led by Graham Bell, who was the tutor at  the first PFC in Eyemouth, 2017. The 15 participants will learn the principles of permaculture, with an emphasis on creating food forests.  The course is based […]

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No food without flowers

Grow Wild is the national outreach initiative of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. They are working with individuals, groups and charities to get us all growing wildflowers. As it says on their website, “In the UK we’re lucky to have some amazing wildflowers, but they’re in danger: we have lost […]

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