Great story that highlights one  of our declining/extinct bee population and the attempts to reintroduce in the uk from healthy bees from sweden.

Right thats it, all my courgette seedlings got munched. I'm now on the case with these slugs. Here's some info I've uncovered for those with similar problems.

Your vegetables and plants are slug paradise - wet winters combined with temperate wet summers provide the ideal conditions for slugs. Their natural enemies, weather-wise, are frosty winters and hot summers.  There are a variety of non-chemical solutions to slugs, some of which are described below. Talk to gardeners in your area…

A workshop for community food growers on finding new places to grow fruit and veg in our towns and cities

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 6pm to 8pm (registration and sandwiches from 5.30pm) at The Space,
Media Education, 183 Dalry Road, Edinburgh.

What is it about?

We want to help more communities in Scotland to find more spaces and new ways to grow their own food. National research published last year highlighted that…

Hi All, Greener Leith are planning to host a Big Lunch, proposed date is Sunday 3rd June.  Based on an idea from the Eden Project it aims to get as many people in UK communities together to host a lunch with their neighbours.  Here is their post with further details on how to get involved.....

http://www.greenerleith.org/

Cheers Diane

If you fancy going to the scottish orchards gathering on 16th June then below is a link with details and a boking form.

The%20Scottish%20Orchards%20Gatheringnew.doc

The Council has successfully been awarded funding for a parks and green spaces project which includes developing a new website and app to:

• support exploring and enjoying the city's parks and green spaces
• learn about heritage, conservation and biodiversity.

Images and short descriptions on items and areas of interest will be mapped as 'collections' and can be spotted following routes across the city. Users will be able to add comments, photos and…

Hi all

Just wondered if any of the community gardens wanted to be part of this years' Blasda festival.

Fife Diet are teaming up with Culture Kitchen in Glasgow to conduct a 2 week relay around Scotland in August.

Anyway here is a link to the Fife Diet site with more details

http://www.fifediet.co.uk/2012/05/10/blasda-2012/

I think it would be fantastic if we could somehow get ourselves involved…

Welcome to May, gardeners!

Time to get Busy and move forward with the growing season, so let's get cracking with the list of jobs to do this month:

• Weeds are taking a hold just now, so hoeing them out daily (on a dry day) and  careful hand weeding on damper…

Hi all, Just found this site and thought it might interest others. its called "the borrowers" and its about all things sharing. take a look and you will see what I mean.

http://www.theborrowers.co.uk/

 chelley

Happy but cold campers with free Rhubarb (more photos below).

We had another ECBA meeting in Dalry this Sunday past.  After a quick coffee and a catch up we went for a wee tour of Cherrytree, Orwell and Caleys Community Backgreen sites, which are right next to each other in Dalry (see…