Volunteer updates

We love this story from one of our volunteers who joined us last year over at our Community Garden in Ravenscraig

Energy prices are increasing on April 1st. Find out why you should read your meter before then in this blog.

Carol and Cap continue their series on why people come to the Walled Garden and what they find.  Here is Alice’s story . . . WANTING ONE RESULT but getting another is common enough, but for volunteer Alice Brotchie and husband Roy Munton it all ended well – both for …

Volunteer numbers are increasing in the Walled Garden as people find companionship, learn new skills – or just like being there. Six-year long volunteer Euan Wood, now a professional horticulturalist, got his volunteering start and indeed his gardening start at the Garden. His volunteering was a positive addition to his …

TWENTY YEARS of ‘hola’ in Spain to plain old ‘hello’ in Fife is the language journey for one of the Walled Garden’s new volunteers. Retired headteacher Ralph Chambers and his wife Helen returned last December to Kirkcaldy where Helen has family and where they visited during their retirement years in …

Ofgem announced this month that they’re increasing the energy price cap, the maximum a supplier is allowed to charge for the energy tariffs. This will affect those most on standard or default tariffs, or those with prepayment meters who could see prices rise by around £153 a year. However, as …

A GARDENEER, SCIENTIST AND POET have all recently found their way to the Walled Garden and they all seem happy.  ‘All’ are in fact combined in one person, volunteer Genevieve Riopel from Quebec, Canada via Edinburgh and now Kirkcaldy. The about-to-be published poet is writing her MSc. Thesis on sea …

GOOD THINGS have a habit of sometimes turning up again – and they certainly do in the Walled Garden. The Garden’s herb spiral – an attractive circular planting of herbs within a brick wall framework – has been reborn after some Covid-driven decline. “It’s a rejuvenation,” said sessional worker Jackie, …