Month: August 2018

Creating and sharing abundance

It was a day for visitors in the Hawick Community Forest Garden yesterday. It’s lovely for us to show people our garden and share ideas about the way forward for community gardening in Hawick and the Scottish Borders. Thanks Norman Elliot-Walker for sharing your ideas about community orchards and foraging, […]

Move over Pizza Hut….

….. Healthy Pizza the Abundant Borders way! with fresh coleslaw on the side! Thanks to Annie, Sue, Hazel and especially Joyce from Burnfoot Community Hub for making this brilliant course possible!

Blueberries and Redcurrants

What a wonderful day in the Hawick Community Forest Garden. Thanks to Michelle Stamp for donating the redcurrant bushes. They’re looking very happy in their new home. And to Rachel Parker for the lovely bird box. Rachel took on the ivy… ….. whilst Gill and Lorna cleared a great space […]

Tuesday was shed day!

We were finally able to get the tool store on site and erected. Kat and the volunteers had put in lots of hard work in advance to level the ground and lay the base and Karen and Shane were on hand on Tuesday to help put the tool store in […]

Rhubarb and Radishes

Keeping the garden watered during the long hot summer has been a bit of a challenge. But thanks to our wonderful volunteers, we now have an outside tap, a lovely new hosepipe and willing helpers. Thanks Rachel! And we have lots of produce to show for all the hard work. […]

Community Composting Consultation

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 […]

All action for Cooking Course Week 2

It was all go today for Week 2 of the healthy cooking course in Hawick. On the menu….

Abundant Borders and the blustery day

It was very blustery in the Hawick Community Forest Garden today. We had fun filling and siting our new bird feeders and digging out numerous roots to make space for our new shed. Thanks to all the volunteers for their hard work. We are starting to see some lovely results […]