Fife Climate Hub Award Funding for a Composting Toilet, Wormery and Pathogen Testing
Fife Climate Hub has awarded £70,000 to 35 local community groups, supporting grassroots projects that tackle the climate emergency while strengthening communities across Fife, including The Sanctuary Garden. The Sanctuary Garden has been awarded funding to purchase a composting toilet, not particularly glamorous, but…
The Kindness and Generosity of Strangers
A friend asked for help to move a polytunnel to his home. I was genuinely expecting a wee home sized frame, despite him having an enchanted field and woodland behind his house. On my arrival I saw loads of commercial sized polytunnels and thought…
Plant Dyeing Winter Workshop at the Edinburgh Botanics
Thanks to Mimi at Eats Rosyth for inviting us to a held a fabulous Plant Dyeing Winter Workshop held by Katrina Wilde at the Rosy Botanical Gardens of Edinburgh and enjoyed by 15 volunteers and staff from both gardens; it was interesting, hands on…
Storm Bram and the prototype
It did not take much for the wind to get the better of our prototype. Fortunately there is no permanent damage. It has helped us with the design, and with lots of shared research we have a final design that takes into account how…
The Times They Are a-Changin’
We need funds to buy fixing and timber to finish this project and your donation will have a direct and lasting impact. The expectation is that this polytunnel will produce 500kg of vegetables that include courgettes, chillies, gem squash (all of you Southern Africans…
“Vision without execution is hallucination.” — Thomas Edison
After a month or so of modifying plans, designs, redesigns and collaboration, a momentous step; the first polytunnel hoop is up. The design process has been led by volunteers and improved upon by volunteers and visitors alike. Witnessing and being able to support this…
A market garden visit to Pillars of Hercules
The 2 acres of land at the Sanctuary garden is big enough to be a market garden, with similar to size to the early years of East Neuk Market Garden. After our volunteer visit at the beginning of the month where Tom from East…
All Change – North South!
Building a polytunnel across the slope, East-West in our case, meant that the gables would be on a 1:10 slope causing complications for doors and thresholds. This has kept our engineering volunteers busy trying to sort out solutions we did not really need because…….
Marking out the new polytunnel
The design of the new polytunnel is changing slightly every time we get together. Little iterations and changes make improvements in how it is being erected and it’s functionality based on our own experiences putting up the tunnel at Grow West Fife and visits…
Progress using a JCB digger!
Pictures speak a 1000 words. With the use of the JCB from the neighbouring farmers, Ian and James Adam, 2 hours work with their machine would have taken many demoralising and back-breaking days of work by hand. The photos at the top show the…