Month: May 2019

Training in Sustainable Growing

Thanks to support from National Lottery Community Fund we can offer FREE PLACES for the latest training course in sustainable growing. The course is informal with an emphasis on practical skills. Mornings will be in the Community Centre, Eyemouth with afternoons on the allotment. Tools and materials are provided, as […]

Spring at Open Space

While the weather has been a little unpredictable, and very dry, we have started planting. And have put in some water collection in case summer ’19 is a sunny and dry as summer ’18 – we can but hope!

Polytunnel going up

The polytunnel is easy-build but it still takes lots of willing workers

Volunteers transform Hawick

Volunteer co-ordinator, Cath, is working really hard with the volunteers at the Hawick Community Food Garden. It is the first full season of growing and there is lots planted and coming along wonderfully well.

Spring at Ayton

This is the third growing season at the Ayton Community Food Garden and thee is plenty going on at the start of the year. The community food growers have done an incredible job over the past 3 years and we’re looking forward to plenty of produce this year

We Love – Sweet Cicely

Sweet Cicely is an incredibly delicious and nutritious plant growing free in the hedgerows! Sweet cicely is a relative of chervil and parsley and is native to Britain. It was popular in herb gardens in the Victorian era. The tradition was for it to be grown near the kitchen door […]

Thanks to Hawick High School

Eleven S2 pupils (class 2.7) recently helped plan and host the ‘Give Good Food’ evening in the Home Economics department, where they invited staff members and family guests. They enjoyed food prepared by the pupils. £69.40 was raised for Abundant Borders through guests’ generous donations, and a new partnership has […]

Towards a sustainable food system

Last Friday I found myself here: The Centre for Civic Innovation in Glasgow. Why? I was attending my first climathon, which for anyone who doesn’t know (like me, before I went to one) is basically a marathon of brainstorming ideas to tackle climate change, developing these and then pitching them […]

We Love – Sorrel

Sorrel is a great plant to forage for winter greens when little else is growing. The name sorrel is used to describe several related plants. The name comes from the French for ‘sour’ (sœur), and it is true that the leaves, which are the edible part of the plant, have […]