Category: Hawick Community Garden

Design theory becomes design practice.

It’s not all about digging! Part of the permaculture process is to design a garden that fits the space, the conditions, the needs of the growers and works in harmony with the environment. The Hawick Community Growing Team, led by Rachel, have settled upon a mandala style layout, with paths […]

Taking shape

The Hawick Community Garden is really starting to take shape! From Sue, one of the community growers, “I’m really pleased with the progress we’ve made so far. I think we make a good team and it’s such a pleasure to be part of this wonderful project.“ Thanks Sue!

Many hands make light work

Oh My Goodness. What is it that they say about Many Hands Making Light Work!! What a transformation is happening in the Community Food Garden Barren ground has been planted with trees and shrubs ….. and the view from the top of the garden has been transformed…

Getting Started in the garden – at last!

The sun came out and so did the Hawick Community gardeners! It’s fantastic to see work starting. The 15 participants in the training course were hard at it all morning. It’s a big project but lots of enthusiasm and happy faces too!

PFC Day 2

Lots to talk about today! The PFC participants meet for Modulke v2 and start the day by enthusiastically discussing what they learned last week and what lessons they have already been able to incorporate into their own lives.

PFC starts in Hawick

The first day of the Permaculture Foundation Course at Hawick started today. The course is led by Graham Bell, who was the tutor at the first PFC in Eyemouth, 2017. The 15 participants will learn the principles of permaculture, with an emphasis on creating food forests. The course is based […]

Visit from Rachael Hamilton MSP

Great to have local MSP Rachael Hamilton visit the Hawick Community Garden today, seen here with Karen and Caroline Brophy-Parkin from our partners at the Salvation Army

Training dates announced

We are absolutely delighted that Graham Bell, the UK’s foremost Permaculture Teacher and the creator, with his wife Nancy, of Britain’s oldest intentional food forest garden, is to lead the Permaculture Foundation Course in Hawick. Graham led the course in Eyemouth in early 2017 and it was a great success. […]

WOW – we got funding from People’s Postcode Trust

Fantastic news to share at the very start of 2018! We are delighted to have been awarded almost £16,000 by the People’s Postcode Trust (www.postcodetrust.org.uk) a grant-giving charity funded entirely by players of People’s Postcode Lottery (www.postcodelottery.co.uk) to support our work in Hawick!

Invitation to tender

Thanks to funding from Awards for All we are looking to appoint a suitably qualified person to provide a Permaculture Foundation Course, for up to 15 participants. The course consists of ten modules, ideally completed one module per week over a ten-week period, beginning in April 2018. Participants should learn […]