Our Community Growing Plot is a shared and community owned space for growing food. Work started in the Summer of 2022 to create a site for shared growing for people who don’t have access to greenspace or time to manage their own allotment year-round. The space is lovingly cared for by volunteers and we are keen to welcome new volunteers, whether you’re an experienced gardener or a novice, to join in and get your hands dirty by planting, digging, building and learning.
The Garden is continually developing, with space for fruit trees and bushes identified, and annual changes to the crops grown in the veg patch.
Emphasis on growing a proportion of perennial vegetables and self setting/reseeding salad plants means that we are growing plants resilient to changeable weather (perennials have longer roots than annuals early in the season) and can collect a harvest earlier in the season. Annual plants provide crops later and add variety to the harvest.
The Garden Larder is available for all to come and harvest what they can use, just have a quick word with staff to find out what is in season and how to harvest.
Dr Helena Simmons, Producer: Environmental Futures, leads twice monthly sessions of Gardening for the Future. Utilising a variety of gardening techniques, Helena places emphasis on biodiversity and carbon storage on a garden level scale, and is keen to share her gardening knowledge.
You can join us for gardening sessions from 10am-4pm (drop in) on the first and third Saturdays of the month and find out more via our events page.
The Community Garden Plot was made possible with thanks to Dandelion 2022 and Fife Council.
