Community gardening

We can help your community project or garden in many different ways, including:

Designing a herb or wildlife-friendly space
Delivering a talk or workshop
Delivering wellbeing-focussed gardening sessions for volunteers or the community

Lynne’s Community gardening highlights

Is currently working with the POP shop in Dunoon to create a new drinks garden for their start-up, Dunoon Goes POP. This involves coordinating and leading a series of workshops.
Co-delivered a food growing course through Grow Food, Grow Dunoon in 2022
Co-delivered volunteering sessions at The Hidden Gardens in Glasgow, involving working with people from a wide range of backgrounds to do a wide range of tasks.
Led a series of workshops with a group of 10 people as part of a Heritage Lottery Funded project to create a medicinal herb courtyard at The Hidden Gardens.
As a verifier, I supported community projects to achieve the Royal Caledonian Horticulture Society’s Grow & Learn award.

gardening and art for wellbeing

We believe in the power of nature and gardening to improve the wellbeing of all of us, whether we are recovering from or living with an illness or managing the day-to-day stresses of life.

Both Lynne and Alan have delivered workshops in community settings with wellbeing in mind. Alan has a background in delivering art workshops in care home and hospital settings, in particular with people living with Dementia. Lynne has led gardening sessions in various community settings with volunteers from a range of backgrounds and with a range of needs.

Here is an article which Lynne wrote for the Dunoon Community Development Trust in 2023 after the Trellis Scotland Gardening for Wellbeing conference.