Category: Glenfinart Walled Garden

It's been a busy week for the Glenfinart Walled Garden volunteers who today put on an amazing display of produce and crafts at Blairmore's Local Produce Christmas Market. Anna Williamson, Linda Naismith, Ann Morrison, Janette Reilly, Merle Ferguson, Lynn Kerr, Margaret Robinson and the Community Payback Team created beautiful wreaths and Christmas decorations to raise …

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Ardentinny Community Trust held a Harvest Fair at Glenfinart Walled Garden on Saturday 12 October. Now a regular item on the Cowalfest programme, this year the garden could offer so much more and it did! In addition to the recently completed Sensory Garden, inspired and recorded by the BBC's Beechgrove Community Garden's programme, there was a host …

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Courtesy: Reporting Scotland/BBC Fruitful Partnerships for Strone and Glenfinart Walled Garden  On the 18th September, 2013, Duncan, Sky, Sarah, Mrs Brown and Mrs Brayshaw from Strone Primary School together with Merle Ferguson from Glenfinart Walled Garden Project went to the Scottish Parliament Building to celebrate Holyrood Apple Day. Only three schools in Scotland were invited to …

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At the Ardentinny Community Trust Annual General Meeting earlier this week, the outgoing trustees outlined the Trust's achievements over the previous 12 months. In this the first full year since Glenfinart Walled Garden had been acquired for the community, Convenor Bill Williamson highlighted the following: - A timber cabin was purchased and erected. This facility …

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