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At Abundant Borders we believe that everyone, regardless of their personal circumstances, has the right to healthy food and that everyone should be valued and supported within their community. We are working to create a network of community food gardens across the Scottish Borders and we support individuals and communities […]

Woohoo! Advancing – what’s not to like!

Thanks to BHA there will be space within the Todlaw development for a community garden The garden will be in the bright green bit on the map. It looks like a building site at the moment but the contractors will clear and level the site before we all get started, […]

Community Gardening Comes to Reston! Over the next few weeks Karen from Abundant Borders will be working with the wonderful young people at Reston Primary School to start to turn the area of grass and weedlings into veggies and seedlings! The school would love this to be an intergenerational project […]

We are delighted to be able to support LINKS Eyemouth by providing advice and information on food and how to cook healthy, nutritious famuily meals on a budget.

Full house for Karen’s talk to U3A this morning. Thanks to everyone who came along and for some really interesting questions.

Join Annie and the team of amazing volunteers every Wednesday 12-2.00 at The British Legion, Coldstream. A choice of delicious soups from fresh locally sourced ingredients and a choice of freshly made sandwiches, tea and coffee all for just £3.00. Everyone welcome. And we kicked off with birthday cake too!! […]

What a lovely day in the Hawick Community Forest Garden. Our volunteers enjoyed cooking a smashing BBQ, tasting wedding cake, colourful salads and sharing the garden produce and foraged goodies with the Hawick community. A great day of companionship and kindness. Many thanks for all the hard work and the […]

We were absolutely delighted to join with Eyemouth Good Food Partnership in delivering healthy lunches to the youngsters at the Early Learning Centre. As well as enjoying their lunch, the youngsters got to prepare their food and learn about healthy eating.

Earlier this year Annie and Karen attended Kirk Square Fair, selling seedlings of edible salads, herbs, fruit bushes and tomato plants. In order to make sure that the 2010 event is as big a success as it was in 2019, Karen and Annie helped out at the fundraising Coffee Morning […]