Barrfields Community Garden in Largs grows food to share with the community and local charities. Our mission is to grow sustainable and organic local food for donation and to foster community engagement with the entire growing cycle.
Project Description
In Summer 2025 we planted up twelve raised beds and our indoor gorwing space with a wide variety of vegetables, held open days and invited members of the community of all ages and abilities to join in and learn, shared knowledge and food with visitors and donated fresh vegetable harvest to the Largs Food Larder, Clark Memorial Food Bank and directly with residents.
We have created our own social media page with over fifty members, where we share our public events and photographs of recent happenings at the community garden. We have hosted a local nursery on multiple occasions and the children excitedly helped with potato harvest, learned to sow seeds and how to transplant plants, and were able to enjoy peas right out of the pod (many for the first time!) We have opened the space to primary and secondary school classes and invite groups and individuals to visit the garden area to relax in nature and learn more about our community project. The garden volunteers have shared tomatoes, beans, chard, peas, herbs and other vegetables directly with visitors for them to enjoy at home.
We hope to make 2026 even more exciting and bountiful by expanding our community engagement and volunteer network through more local events and open days. We intend to expand the number of local charities we donate to, plant fruit trees and continue growing and sharing local food with Largs.
Five one-ton bags of compost at £50 = £250
Fifteen 50l bags soil at £12 = £180
Materials, like gloves, netting, pots, tools and trellises = £80
Seeds, seedlings, bulbs = £100
Three dwarf fruit trees at £30 each = £90
Three large barrels for trees at £50 = £150
Two blueberry bushes at £20 = £40
Drinks, snacks, themos and cooler for Community Pop Along Days = £50
Arbor frame = £60
Location: Largs and Surrounding Areas
Proposed on behalf of: Barrfields Community Garden
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