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Now you see it – now you dont

We are delighted to be getting started at BAVS in Eyemouth. The first step is to take down the old shed. It will go back up again, just in a position that doesn’t take away from the growing space.

The first Monday of each month we have a Volunteering Afternoon at the Community Garden in Ayton. It is a chance for the course participants to meet up and for us all to pitch in with some of the bigger jobs, like building compost heaps. But this Monday was not […]

Abundant Borders – out and about

Thanks to everyone who came to Hawick today to hear about the new, lottery funded project to co-create a community garden. We have lots of work to do but the enthusiasm for the project was incredible, thank you! And thanks to everyone who came to hear Karen at BAVS AGM […]

WOW – We got Big Lottery Scotland Funding

£737k of National Lottery funding is being awarded to 98 community, sports and arts projects today! And Abundant Borders is one of the lucky winners :0) The funding will allow us to get started in Hawick, transforming the neglected land behind The Salvation Army Community Store into a productive food […]

Co-creating abundance in Hawick

Working with the Salvation Army, we will be co-creating a community food garden behind the The Salvation Army Community Store in the town centre. The start of the project will be to hold an Open Meeting so that the whole community can come together and decide just how we want […]

Transformation!

They say that a picture paints a thousand words and I think in this case it is true. Have a look at the transformation of the garden area at Linkim Court – from neglected beds with dying roses to accessible planters filled with herbs, perennial salads and flowers. Thanks to […]

Sharing Abundance

At this time of year the garden is bursting with produce. At Abundant Borders we believe in sharing surplus. So we have collected salads, herbs, beetroot, onions and courgettes for the cooking classes, part of Eyemouth Good Food Partnership. And they were put to very good use “The lovely smells […]

Building beds and creating paths

Rain cut short the volunteer afternoon today but not before Shane and Karen, the raised-bed-masters, created shuttering to mark paths. This way we can tell which bits of grass are path and should be strimmed and which bits of grass will be cleared and mulched for planting.

Endings and beginnings

All good things must come to an end. Finished work at Linkim Court today. Raised beds built and planted, grass restored where the tons of topsoil were stored and an extra wee bit of work to tidy the planted areas at the entrance. We will be holding regular volunteering days […]

Community Volunteer Day

Despite the rain, what a great afternoon at Ayton Community Garden. There is so much growing there now! Amazing! And we were really pleased to be able to help put up composting areas. We had a visit from Mrs Lathe and can look forward to working even more closely with […]