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How did your map's perspective help make progress toward verdant and just wellbeing? Contribute your impact story!• Take a few minutes to gather your thoughts about the outcomes that made lasting impacts on your community, your mapping team or on the global Green Map network. Write for a global audience. Read some stories on the map, we suggest. • Your Impact Story can be 2 to 5 paragraphs, or a bit longer if you like! • Select images that add to your story (we can help you upload a PDF, add links, too).• Please include at least one photo (square, up to 1 MB is best, jpg or png). • As you select icons and fill in the form, please share a message with future mapmakers. • There will be a prize each month, thanks to Patagonia, too.On GreenMap.org, there may be a story or blog post about your project, or an interactive map, PDF, or video, etc. We will add these to your story, and lightly edit. Thank you! This Green Map will preserve your work and inspire new mapmakers. 

This is such a good idea! Icons and story by Don’t Drop it, Taiwan (Chinese below)

It was a perfect afternoon in the garden to learn a bit about pruning fruit trees for maximum fruit output.  Plus, we had a very hands on time trying out the techniques. 

Our wonderful Herbalist Rosy Rose joined us in a very sunny garden to teach us all about the summer herbs that can support our nervous system.

We had a wonderful evening in the garden in conjunction with the VandA Dundee learning all about Hapa Zome.  This is the Japanese art of dyeing with plants where plant pigments are transferred onto fabric or paper by pounding fresh leaves and flowers with a hammer.  Jek has been working with the V&A Dundee on their plant dyeing project and came along to share her knowledge.  She has also been experimenting with using plants to dye wool and cotton.

Isn't it heartening when all the things we talk about doing come together beautifully!

我們是不落蒂小隊，一個長期關注菸蒂議題的兒童團隊，從小學時就開始倡議菸蒂減量與環境保護。接觸到 Green Map 這個全球性的地圖平台後，我們希望把行動擴展到全世界，讓更多人看見並參與改善。

We are looking to recruit a Lead Gardener who is pro-active and organised, with experience of large scale

It's been wonderful having events this year! In addition to live events, our monthly Open Hour continues on first Wednesdays at 11 (except in August), as noted on our Events page. Starting with the Earth Day Week crew in Saugerties, above, workshops have helped bring forth great ideas about local resources, places and people who are making positive change in their community.  Several interested people joined our 2025 Jane's Walk in May, which offered a planner's view of the Avenue C Cultural Corridor with anthropologist Lyn Pentecost and designer Wendy Brawer, who is also Green Map's Director. Special thanks to all the locations we visited, including Campos Garden, our starting point! 

Grow plants for free from pips and peelings!  

Who would have thought a jam making workshop would be such fun!  We had 15 people, 6 flavours of jam and 3 hobs all on the go at the same time.  Many of the participants had never made jam so we talked about mixing the fruit and the sugar and the role that pectin plays in setting the jam.  Blackcurrants and gooseberries were ready to harvest in the garden and they are high in pectin so they featured in most of the jams.   There are some recipes and more information here.

Sat 21st June 2025

We had a brilliant day at the University of Dundee Botanic Gardens.  It was a city wide event aimed at promoting the power of plants and some of their many uses.  It was a glorious Summer day and the gardens were full of families enjoying the event.

We are so lucky in Dundee to be surrounded by copious, healthy woodland.  We wanted to learn a bit more about using wood so the wonderful Kiri Stone, Woodswoman, came along to deliver a workshop using local Birch wood.  We were shown how to make a beautiful and unique mushroom. 

So many of us have very little garden space we thought it would be a great idea to look at how to grow successfully in pots.  

We had a brilliant afternoon in the Garden looking at how to grow some of our more common herbs and the types of conditions they like.   We had grown some young herb plants and everyone was able to choose their favourites and plant up a container with herbs to take home. 

April features Earth Day, of course, and hopeful signs of spring. At these stressful times, work grounded in one’s own community can be a balm for your outlook - mapping is a power tool for uncertain times. Giving voice that shapes our common future, it’s now the season for digging in, spurring growth for all.  

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Ever tasted Dandelion coffee?  It's not as bad as it sounds, it is surprisingly delicious!  Save money and boost your health with some tasty root herb preparations.

Last year, we started to envision a digital archive that would be made in collaboration with the Green Mapmakers that would chart the outcomes, maps and media of each Green Map project. We’ve since come to understand the complexity of that grand vision and decided to start by focusing on the most important element: the impacts, as shared by the Mapmakers.  

We have been out and about at Dundee Uni.  We've been spreading the word about the opportunities available in our Community Growing spaces and gardens for volunteering.  The students had a chance to ask all about the gardens and how to get involved.  We gave away free seeds and made a few herbal tea bags.  It was so much fun to meet lots of new faces and chat to lots of bright sparks!  Hoping to see a few of them over the coming weeks. 

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.  

Share knowledge and contribute data through a Green Map survey. Answer questions, take pictures, and observe your community and local environment while on the move.

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.)