With our minds beginning to turn towards gardening after a long winter, it’s a good time to highlight the very real danger of strimming for hedgehogs. Hedgehogs often shelter in longer grass and don’t run away when they hear loud noises or are frightened, but instead their safety mechanism is to curl up into a…
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Happy New Year and happy growing from the Outreach Team! We would like to start the year by looking back at some lovely moments from before Christmas and sharing what’s coming up next across our projects. Nursery Outreach & The Beehive Garden Our young volunteers from Dunbar Grammar have been an amazing support to everyone…
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Wassailing at BCG
Saturday 10th January 2026, 2-4pm, Belhaven Community Garden Wassailing is an ancient winter tradition originating from the Anglo-Saxon toast “Waes Hael” (be well), involving singing, drinking spiced ale or cider, and making a noise in orchards on or around Twelfth Night to bless the apple trees for a good harvest in the coming year, to…
It’s that time of year when I like to look back and think about how well the past year has gone. We realise that none of our Pledgehog Project could have happened without our supporters and funders to which we are extremely grateful! So today’s blog is to celebrate the continued support there is to…
I thought it might be a nice idea to spread the hedgehog love this Christmas and list some hedgehoggy ideas for Christmas gifts for friends and family. I have picked some of my favourites, but there are a wide variety of hedgehog themed gifts on The British Hedgehog Preservation Society website you can also look…
Background This project is a partnership between Sustaining Dunbar and Forth Rivers Trust and is being funded by a grant from the Neighbourhood Ecosystem Restoration fund which we are pleased to have been able to match with funding from the East Lammermuir Community Benefit Fund. It is a small project but with the ambitious aim…
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DGS Volunteers
Welcoming our new autumn 2025 volunteers from Dunbar Grammar School We are delighted to welcome on board our new autumn 2025 volunteers at the Beehive Garden and Dunbar Day Centre. Sixteen enthusiastic young people have signed up to volunteer with us in the Beehive Garden, supporting outdoor play and nature-based activities with the nursery children! …
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Go Wild for Hedgehogs!
A fantastic way to encourage prickly visitors into your garden is by embracing the wild! Give a section of your garden back to nature and it can provide natural insect food and nesting materials for hedgehogs. 1. Choose your wild patch It could be a corner at the back or a strip along the side…
Catch up with Carey’s work here! The Poly & Allotment What a roasty-toasty summer it has been – sometimes a bit too hot to work in the polytunnel! The sunshine did wonders for the tomatoes, though, which turned out super delicious. The children especially loved picking and eating them straight from the vine. The Peas…
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Migratory Birds Walk
Thanks to everyone who came along for the Wild about West Barns ‘migratory birds’ walk on Sunday evening. We walked around the village and discussed our urban summer migrants, noting that while the swift colony had looked fairly healthy (they have already left for Africa), there haven’t been any breeding house martins in West Barns this…