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Growing Community Food Initiatives

There is a huge amount of interest in community food initiaves across The Borders right now, which is fantastic. Abundant Borders is working with partners across the region to see how we can all work together to ensure that the whole of our efforts is much more than the sum […]

Visit from Rachael Hamilton MSP

Great to have local MSP Rachael Hamilton visit the Hawick Community Garden today, seen here with Karen and Caroline Brophy-Parkin from our partners at the Salvation Army

Spring has sprung…

… almost! Very very cold – and something is eating the brassicas – but great to be back at Ayton Community Garden. Got the planting plans sorted for the year so really feels like spring has sprung.

More great press coverage

We are delighted to have some more great coverage in the press, this time in The Southern Reporter

Training dates announced

We are absolutely delighted that Graham Bell, the UK’s foremost Permaculture Teacher and the creator, with his wife Nancy, of Britain’s oldest intentional food forest garden, is to lead the Permaculture Foundation Course in Hawick. Graham led the course in Eyemouth in early 2017 and it was a great success. […]

Community Action Plan

Penny, Annie, Shane, Karen were out this morning in Eyemouth promoting Localities Initiative and supporting the co-creation of a Good Food Hub for Berwickshire Thanks to everyone who came to see us and to support us. There are still a few days left to vote so look out for ballot […]

A Good Food Hub for Berwickshire

From Thursday 1st February 2018 through to Wednesday 28th February 2018 voting is open for projects looking for support from Scottish Borders Council Localities Fund. Abundant Borders, local communities and partners want to co-create a Good Food Hub for Berwickshire; to help connect and support communities and local food businesses […]

WOW – we got funding from People’s Postcode Trust

Fantastic news to share at the very start of 2018! We are delighted to have been awarded almost £16,000 by the People’s Postcode Trust (www.postcodetrust.org.uk) a grant-giving charity funded entirely by players of People’s Postcode Lottery (www.postcodelottery.co.uk) to support our work in Hawick!

Invitation to tender

Thanks to funding from Awards for All we are looking to appoint a suitably qualified person to provide a Permaculture Foundation Course, for up to 15 participants. The course consists of ten modules, ideally completed one module per week over a ten-week period, beginning in April 2018. Participants should learn […]

Works in Progress

Tea and biscuits today at Linkim Court and a chance to share our story so far with residents. They can’t get out to see some of the other sites for themselves so wanted to see how the other projects compared to the transformation of their outdoor space. So we made […]