Community Roots Gardens West Kilbride

25/10/2026

💨I hope your home and gardens have survived the storm last night and that all is well. Thankfully our garden and our building looks ok today when I inspected. Our polytunnel at 53 Main St has not budged thankfully other than one door blowing back and forth undamaged this morning.
Phew!

Big thanks to volunteers Mark, Clive, Sarah and Dave for assisting yesterday in storm damage prevention. 🙌

19/10/2026

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19/10/2026

17/10/2026

☀️October is not letting go of the sunshine in a hurry! ☀️

🪏Our wee upper garden is still looking beautiful and there’s even some late blooming sunflowers which are the upside to forgetting to plant them out early and the warmer Autumn we’re having.🌻

Whilst working on some shelving yesterday in our building with my friend Mark, I took a wee wander around and was reminded that despite the setbacks we’re having with completing our building, the sun still shines, the plants still grow and there is always something to feel happy and grateful for in a garden or outdoors. 💚

🎨Even the sad looking wee benches we got for free look joyful and ready to enjoy a new life on our decking now they’ve been repaired and painted.

🏡We are working hard to get our building and grounds work completed, we have had many challenges and are pushing through as best we can. 👷

Even though it feels like it’s come to a standstill I’m aware that we are still gently nudging forwards, much like how the earth keeps turning even though we can’t sense it🌍

Enjoy the sunshine this weekend and share in my gratitude that there is so much beauty around us. 🙏😊☀️

15/10/2026

Throwback Thursday brings us that wonderful article about Community Roots Gardens in the Ayrshire Magazine. We think they captured the project well. Its one of the first things that will be going in a frame and onto the wall of our new community building.
https://ayrshiremagazine.com/community-roots-garden/

15/10/2026

A big thanks to Heather Canter for the Belfast sink ! 🙏
We have plans to use it in our sustainable watering system in the garden, or we may use it as a wee pond.

It weighed a tonne! 🏋and even though it was literally across the street from our wee garden, it required a well thought out system to move it safely out of the garden across the street, down the wee hill and then up our ramped entrance!

🙌Well done to Sarah, Monica, Stephen and Clive for doing the heavy work and careful planning! Me? Well I put the coffee and teas on for them afterwards…. ☕️That was still a really important task! 😝

Our volunteer days are 10-1 Mondays and Wednesdays. It’s not all heavy lifting! We also have some low energy tasks around the garden and there is no experience necessary 😊
We are situated in the Boyd Orr Garden and the upper garden from there. Across from the pharmacy and Abigail Rocketblasts.

12/10/2026

🎂 Today we want to celebrate our wonderful volunteer Clive! It is his birthday and I thought it a great opportunity to say how grateful we are for sticking with us the last 5 years in our Community Roots Garden project!

Clive is well known in the volunteer circuit as he likes to keep very busy and offers support to several organisations.

He has been with us from the very beginning and we LOVE having him in our gardening sessions where he builds, tears down, digs out monster roots and objects in our garden, is our go to heavy lifter and has the best banter.
He is also very good at bolstering me up when things are tricky, especially over the last year with the building work stresses.

Thank you Clive for all your hard work and have a very enjoyable day (which he is doing what he loves best- volunteering !)

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12/10/2026

🎂 Today we want to celebrate our wonderful volunteer Clive! It is his birthday and I thought it a great opportunity to say how grateful we are for sticking with us the last 5 years in our Community Roots Garden project!

Clive is well known in the volunteer circuit as he likes to keep very busy and offers support to several organisations.

He has been with us from the very beginning and we LOVE having him in our gardening sessions where he builds, tears down, digs out monster roots and objects in our garden, is our go to heavy lifter and has the best banter.
He is also very good at bolstering me up when things are tricky, especially over the last year with the building work stresses.

Thank you Clive for all your hard work and have a very enjoyable day (which he is doing what he loves best- volunteering !)

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02/10/2026

Check out this post by Thrive on simple Autumn daily wellbeing tasks that get us looking outside for gratitude and inspiration.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DZXmqsM8C/?mibextid=wwXIfr