Apple Harvest 2024 from Cordon Community Garden (trees planted in 2021)
Investment project code: 843
Estimated Price
£1,000
Summary
Expanding Arran's community gardens through forest garden principles alongside no-dig gardening techniques to enhance biodiversity, food security, and community resilience while promoting sustainable land use.
Description
We aim to further enhance Arran's community gardens and green spaces through continued development of different models forest garden principles and no-dig techniques. This project will increase biodiversity, improve soil health, and boost local food production. Our team will use this funding to provide on-the-ground sessions on forest garden design and no-dig methods, and supply essential materials to participating gardens for the 2024/2025 season.
Cost Breakdown:
Organic compost and mulch: £400
Organic seeds and seedlings (fruit trees, shrubs, perennials): £250
Transportation costs for materials (including bringing pallets of compost by ferry to Arran): £100
Workshop materials and printing costs: £50
Signage for educational purposes: £50
Total: £1,000
This project will empower Arran's communities to create sustainable, productive landscapes while promoting ecological awareness and community resilience.
Location: The Arran Pioneer Project CIC demonstrates methods of sustainable land use for the benefit of all. We investigate, demonstrate and prototype methods of land use to find long lasting, sustainable solutions for our communities. We tackle the issues that rural communities are facing in the west of Scotland and beyond. See our website for more details: www.pioneerproject.scot
Proposed on behalf of: Cordon Community Garden, Cladach Community Garden, Pirnmill Community Garden, Kilpatrick Forest Garden
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