As our veg is now ready for picking and the stall is up and running every second Sunday at the community garden or the Larrick Centre. We have loads of fresh veggies and herbs so pop along between 1-3pm for some lovely fresh veg. Please bring your own bags with you. As you can see we sold out last Sunday so do come along!

Fortnightly Veg Box Subscription
This year we are also offering a veg box. They will be supplied fortnightly and can be collected from the community garden. We have two sizes available: 

Our veg boxes are limited and first come first served so get in touch to reserve yours. Monthly payment is taken upfront and can be paid by card on your first collection. Email Ali to reserve your box now.

Can you help us pick veg or serve at the stall?
We are looking for Harvest Helpers to pick veggies and people to help with the stall, no experience is required just a friendly face and enthusiasm! 

Please email Ali on volunteer@tayportgarden.org if you could spare a few hours on a Sunday to spend in the garden helping with the harvest and the stall.

The apple trees are in good shape and have set a huge amount of fruit despite late frosts, strong winds at blossom time and a lot of very hot dry weather. The plums are suffering a bit from drought and aphids, with not a lot of crop this year.

 

The soft fruit bushes around the Garvie Brae play park are giving us an abundant supply of blackcurrants, redcurrants, whitecurrants, red and green gooseberries and alpine strawberries. It’s lovely to see people pick and use them. They’re tasty, full of vitamins and minerals, organically grown, local with no food miles and free. Berries can be made into jam, curd, pies or frozen for those winter smoothies.

 

Our volunteers have recently taken a lot of nettles and cherry suckers out from the wildflower border which is looking great and buzzing with bees. It will soon be time to summer prune the apple trees and any necessary pruning of the soft fruit.

Can you do us a favour?

Please can anyone who lives near the trees throw an occasional bucket of water around their nearest tree, it’s been very dry and this would help the apples to swell up nice and juicy!

If you have a bit more time... the fruit tree walk is looked after by volunteers and we always need more. If this could be you, come along and say hello, or contact Ali on volunteer@tayportgarden.org 

 

If you fancy having a go at storytelling with us, get in touch with Kaska on blog@tayportgarden.org. Whatever tickles your fancy - writing, photos, video, podcasts or simply telling a good tale around a campfire - we would love to have you! Training provided.

• Storytelling in the Garden with Owen Pilgrim. We hear from Owen about how telling stories can better connect us to each other, ourselves and to the landscapes around us. To finish up Owen tells the wonderful ‘Village of Pots’ story. Listen here.

• Tayport Community Fridge - tackling food waste one elephant at a time. We hear from the lovely people who set up the Fridge at the Larick, how it’s working out and plans for the future. Listen here.

Last Tuesday, festival organisers hosted an open meeting for all current and potential Tayport community contributors to the Festival. We took some time to reflect why everyone thought it was important to do something about climate crisis here and now in Tayport:

If we really are going to overcome the catastrophes that face us, action has to be taken on every level, from international down to local. I don't think any of us here has much international clout, so we need to act on our own local level. Mark, PLANT Comittee and Taycoasters

Helping people to feel empowered to know that they can make change - no matter how small they feel it is - it makes a huge difference, collectively. Laura, St Andrews Environmental Network

My reason is sat on my lap - this is Bella and she going to have an awesome future because I'm saving the world one plastic item at a time. Nicola, Clean Soaps

It has been a great pleasure to meet everyone who made it on the day, and to work with all the amazing contributors who have put forward their events and market stalls to be included in the Programme so far. There is still time to get your events and stalls included, with the following deadlines for new submissions:

• Putting on an event - 8th of August. More information.
• Including a stall in the marketplace - 12th of August. More infomation.

We are also looking for people who may be able to help in the run up to the festival on 24-26 September, by joining our organising group or putting a few hours in to help with marketing/social media. If you are interested and have some time to spare, get in touch on tayportclimatefest@gmail.com.

As of today, you can get all your Festival updates on Instagram as well as Facebook.