Dundee's Food Growing and Community Garden Network
A place to connect and get involved with food growing in Dundee.
What's On
Food growing workshops and events
Come along to our friendly and fun events to learn about food growing and nature: music, food, workshops, open days, mindfulness or craft, for all ages and abilities. Most events are free.
Learn some of the basics about self-care with Herbal potions. Rachel will talk us through some techniques and show simple recipes to try at home. Make a lotion bar. If you have always wanted to learn a bit more about the benefits we gain from plants this is your chance!
Swap tips, seeds and advice. Find out more about the garden and our latest projects. Have a cuppa and a chat. Browse our books or try out a garden quiz!
We need volunteers with all sorts of talents to help our community gardens thrive. Learn new skills, meet local people and discover nature on your doorstep. Sign up now.
We are building Dudhope Castle Gardens to make a welcoming space for humans and wildlife. We want this space to be a place for people to build their awareness of and connection with their local environment.
Volunteers can be involved with gardening tasks, designing new areas of garden development, planning and running events. We are always keen to build on volunteer’s interests, skills and experience and therefore encourage suggestions and ideas and volunteers from all walks of life.
There is a planning application underway to build houses, a crematorium and a new football stadium at a site in Camperdown Park in Dundee. You can read more about it here (planning ref number 24/00096/PPPM.)
We had an introduction to making our own Terrariums and had lots of fun getting creative! We used small Aloes, Jade plants (Crassula) and Fittonia with bright variegated leaves. Hoping for minimal watering over the next few weeks as the lid of the Terrarium helps to retain the moisture.
The Lovely Manuela who is doing a Degree in Fine Art agreed to run a Printing workshop and show how we can use ink and paper along with nature to create a beautiful image.
As a Growing Network we held our first seed swap at the start of 2025 at Campy Growers. The seed swap was designed to encourage swapping of excess saved seed and excess bought seed. As a group we have been experimenting with saving our own seed from a number of flowers like Cosmos and Calendula plus Tomatoes and chillies. All the seeds are open pollinated so there are no guarantees that they will be exactly what you expect but that can be part of the fun. We had a great turn out from all sorts of folk, some new beginners and some experienced growers. There was plenty to share as well as the seeds!
Over the past year we have been privileged to host a number of visitors from across Scotland who have come to see the gardens and to find out more about what we do and how we work in our local neighbourhoods and gatherings. It has been so valuable to share ideas and discuss the issues we all face and to talk about how we face some of the challenges. Sharing knowledge and experience is part of our strength and we welcome like minded groups and organisations. We can all learn from each other.
If you are one of the network growing spaces you can share news, events or volunteering opportunities so they can be included in the website. If you aren't a member yet but would like to be, just get in touch with us!