Community Garden
Project: Stewartry Community Garden.
Location: Castle Douglas, at the Rugby Club.
Community Wellness
The garden was conceived during lockdown as a way to help people reconnect to their food autonomy. A place to bring people together to share space, fresh air, nature, food, productivity and of course, the odd cup of tea!
Everything in the garden is edible or medicinal. It is a place for learning and growing. For creativity and mindfulness. For cooperation and sharing.
It sits on the old railway line in the grounds of Stewartry Rugby Club next to Unicorn Strength Gym.
Connecting through nature
The garden is ran by CDDF Trustee Anne Halliday. She created it to allow people of all ages to come together in a space that is always open. That is always welcoming to everyone.
Anne started out with no knowledge of gardening and a strong desire to build something worthy within the community she has grown up in.
“Gardens are a wonderful place for people to come together and connect through work, food, sharing, helping and nature”.
Empowering
“Growing your own food is empowering. Sharing the experience is good for the soul. Convenience and consumerism has disconnected people from their food and where it comes from, within just a couple of generations knowledge that was once common has been lost and diluted. People are alienated from the liberty that growing your own food provides. The community garden is just a small gesture towards reclaiming our food autonomy.”
Anne
Get involved
The garden is always open.
You are welcome to pop along any time you like.
There is ample parking next to the gym, bike racks behind the gym or you can wander along from the town in fifteen to twenty minutes.
Connect with us via our Facebook or Instagram with any questions.
What’s on in the Garden?
Through out the year we run workshops and open days.
Follow our social media to keep up to date with any events coming up.
