Events

I am emailing from the charity Butterfly Conservation to let you know that I will be running some Urban Butterfly Identification workshops in Glasgow in May. We are aiming to get more people recording the butterflies they see in urban greenspaces, including allotments. I had a look at your website, and was very impressed by the likely butterfly-friendly habitats I saw surrounding the plots. Your members would be most welcome to attend any of the workshops (listed below, and see the poster). If anyone would like to attend, they can contact me at amccluskey@butterfly-conservation.org or 01786 459811. The workshops are free to attend, and all are welcome.

Dates:-

• Friday 6th May: Pollok Country Park
• Saturday 7th May: Tollcross Park
• Saturday 14th May: Hogganfield LNR
• Friday 20th May: Robroyston Park LNR

Wednesday 16 March, 10.30am-2.30pm

Rose Garden Orchard, Old Rutherglen Road, Gorbals, G5 0RE

Learn how to prune mature fruit trees so they’ll be healthy and productive with this free practical workshop led by The Urban Orchard Project.  You will also be helping to maintain the Rose Garden Orchard – Glasgow’s oldest community orchard – for all to enjoy! No experience necessary. Tools, gloves, free lunch and hot refreshments provided. Please wear old clothes, waterproofs and outdoor shoes. To keep up to date with activities in the orchard visit:

www.facebook.com/RoseGardenOrchard/

For more information contact:

Clementine@theurbanorchardproject.org / 07872071712

This event is for sharing best practice and collaboration between community gardens, the NHS and other health care services

Date:     Thursday 3rd March 10.00-16.00.
Venue:  North Glasgow Homes, Saracen House, 139 Saracen Street, Possilpark, Glasgow, G22 5AZ

See the Event Programme

See our post on the GAF Potato Day.

GAF are looking for volunteers. Preference is given to those who have volunteered before. Please let Jan know by phone/text 0778 093 7278 or e-mail jan.lynne2303@gmail.com if you can help in any of the following ways:

Setting-Up 9am – 11.30am

The Reidvale Centre will be open at 9am. Stay for as long as you are able. There’s a lot of lugging about of potatoes and other heavy things – so strong fit folk will be in demand. Also, help with general setting up and putting up notices, etc for the not-so-physical.

Manning Stalls and helping Customers 10.30am – 3.15pm, for as long as you are able

You do not need to know a lot about potatoes but it helps! Most important is a willingness to help people negotiate the potato day process of choosing and buying, where to pay, where the loos are, etc.

Manning the front desk 10.20am-3.15pm, for as long as you are able

Greeting folk and giving general information about the day and how it works, any other questions about GAF, etc. Needs two folk at a time throughout the day. Warm clothing required!

Cafe – any time 9am – 4pm

Everyone’s favouirite stall! We require folk to help serve tea/coffee and cake plus some chatty folk to act as hosts, asking customers to complete a questionnaire and generally welcome them to our GAF event.

Donation of Home-Baking, Jams, Chutneys, etc

ALL DONATIONS VERY WELCOME. Please take directly, as early as possible on the day, to the cafe.

Please label what the item is and mark clearly if it contains NUTS.

Clearing up 3-4.30pm

We are due to be out of the building at 4pm.

GAF is proud of its reputation for leaving the venue clean and tidy with minimal work for the janitors. Again, strong fit folk will be in demand.

Lastly, if anyone is a Certified First Aider, please let me know.

Glasgow Allotment Forum will be holding their 5th GAF POTATO DAY on Sunday 28th February, 11am-3pm at The Reidvale Neighbourhood Centre 13 Whitevale St, Dennistoun Glasgow, G31 1QW

All are welcome, so please spread the word to friends, family, schools, work-mates and fellow gardeners. Once again we will be joined by Glasgow Food Network who will be running a seed-swap table. There will be workshops and a café (!)

This year we have over 50 varieties of seed potato, the majority of which are Scottish grown –a draft list is on the GAF web site now, but please remember it is not definitive yet. You will find old favourites as well as new additions and can again buy from as little as 1 tuber to larger amounts, although the day is more about variety than quantity. There will be onion sets, shallot sets and garlic as well as fertiliser and potato planter bags. Please support our ‘Tattie Bash’ and grow a potato for charity. For the princely sum of £2 you will be given a pot + 1 seed potato tuber and asked to go away and grow your potato, returning in August to one of our ‘weigh-ins’ to see who can grow the heftiest crop of tatties with all proceeds going to the charity WaterAid; from a land of plenty water we’ll be helping people in parts of the world with little access to any water, let alone anything like the clean, safe drinking water we enjoy. http://www.wateraid.org

Please bring a bag for yourself but also any spare carrier bags for re-use. We will have re-usable cotton bags for sale. Gardening Magazines swap: we will have a point for swapping gardening magazines, so if you have any back issues you’d like to give away, please bring them along.

We also hope to have a recipe board going on so please bring your favourite potato recipe and pin it on the board (we’ll also have pens and paper to hand).

Save the Date, received from Anna Raymond.

On behalf of Glasgow Life, I would like to warmly invite you and all the plot holders at the Sir John Stirling Maxwell Allotment Gardens  to The Museum in the Park, a public consultation event on Saturday 6th of February or Monday 8th of February in Pollokshaws Burgh Hall.

Ahead of proposed plans to redevelop The Burrell Collection, Glasgow Life are inviting a range of communities and users of the museum and the surrounding Pollok Country Park, to participate in a public consultation event. This event is a fantastic opportunity to share your views, ideas and opinions with a range of communities and users of the museum and park, helping to inform their future visions, and ensure that we continue to manage these wonderful public spaces in a way that meets the needs of everybody.

You are warmly invited to join us at Pollokshaws Burgh Hall on ether Saturday 6th of February between 3pm and 6pm or on Monday 8th of February between 5pm and 8pm. Through a number of informal creative activities, you will have the chance to meet and share your experiences with a range of communities and users of the museum and the park, and help inform their future vision. There will be members of the project team on hand to explain a bit more about the project and answer any questions you might have.

Please email  anna@pidginperfect.com, noting which of the sessions you would like to attend. It is free to attend the events, but places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions about the project.

I look forward to seeing you at the consultations!