Month: July 2018

FREE Healthy Cooking Course

Abundant Borders, with support from Awards for All, is running a six-week course teaching how to cook inexpensive meals using simple ingredients and easy cooking methods. Meals will be based around the kind of food found in food parcels and basic larder ingredients. Nothing too difficult, nothing too fancy – […]

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First Harvest!

We had a lovely productive day in the sunshine in the Hawick community garden yesterday. We planted a cherry tree kindly donated by Graham Charley and harvested our first radishes. Looking forward to digging up some tatties in a month or so. It was lovely to welcome Lisa Brydon (Volunteer […]

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A space to relax

Another very productive day in the Hawick Community Forest Garden. Well done team. We now have a lovely new picnic table …. and lots more cardboard down in the top part of the garden. Robin came to survey our progress and posed for a photo!

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Visit to ScotLAND permaculture project

The volunteers from the Hawick Community Garden enjoyed a visit to the Red Shed this week to see Permaculture in action. What a beautifully abundant place! Thanks Graham Bell for your wonderful hospitality. ScotLAND is a Scotland-wide network supporting and creating permaculture Learning And Network Demonstration (LAND) Centres. The aim of […]

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Abundant Borders welcomes two new team members!

We are delighted that Sue Winters and Kat Dunlop have both joined the team here at Abundant Borders! Sue recently graduated from the Permaculture Foundation Course, seen here receiving her certificate from course tutor Graham Bell, and joins as Volunteer Co-ordinator. Sue will be supported by Kat Dunlop, who holds […]

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Graduating in the sunshine

The latest group of fabulous folk graduated with their Permaculture Foundation Course certificates today. Congratulations to all 15 who have worked really hard and deserve their moment in the sun!

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Hawick Community garden …

… is really starting to take shape.   With a little help from our friends!

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Tatty thief at Ayton??

Well, of course not… but for a while it looked like tatties were vanishing! Turns out that volunteer Gillian had been around a pulled the first crop! And they were delicious too! Meanwile we are all busy creating even more abundance to share

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