Category: General Information

Here in the Scottish Borders the council do not collect food waste as a separate collection. Instead, it goes into landfill. Abundant Borders want to take food residues out of the waste stream destined for landfill and instead, working with the local community and community groups, turn this waste into […]

Role: Volunteer Co-Ordinator Organisation: Abundant Borders Location: Hawick Salary: £18,000 pro rata for 28 hours per week Closing: Friday 22nd June 2018   Abundant Borders (SC046962) is a small charity working to create a network of food production site across the Scottish Borders, whose aim is to alleviate household food […]

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. […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]