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Spring 2025 Dunbar Grammar Volunteers We are incredibly proud to celebrate our two fantastic groups of young volunteers from Dunbar Grammar School, who have made a real difference in our local community. Our amazing Beehive Nursery Garden volunteers have been delivering nature-based activities for the younger children, which they designed themselves. The little ones had…
Sunday 18th May, 2-4pm, Belhaven Community Garden Bring you spare young seedlings to swap. Or just come and buy seedlings for your own garden. Guided tours of the community garden and orchard….
Hedgehogs need to get enough water to stay healthy. They can find this in the insects that they eat, in the dew or by drinking from puddles. But when there has been a lack of rain, then the ground is drier, insects can be harder to find and less natural sources of water are available.…
Hedgehogs should be out and about this month and will be spending their time building back up the energy they lost while hibernating, in preparation for their mating season. A hedgehog’s diet is mostly made up of creepie crawlies like beetles, caterpillars, worms, slugs, earwigs and millipedes. Top tips of ways to create areas in…
Our Pledgehog Project Officer, Jen Walker, was interviewed by Gary McGregor on his ‘Home straight with Gary McGregor’ show on East Coast FM radio on 28th February. They talked a bit about the project and what we can be doing to help hedgehogs at this time of year. Click here to listen again.
This month, now spring is in the air, hedgehogs will begin to emerge from hibernation. After a long period without food, they might have lost around a third of their body weight. This is the perfect time to start putting out supplementary food and water as they will be extremely hungry. The hedgehog’s natural diet…
This month, before hedgehogs come out of hibernation, I would like to urge you to have a look around your garden, or outdoor space, to try and make it a safer place for hedgehogs to visit when the Spring comes. Why not try and imagine that you’re a hedgehog, snuffling around at night looking for…
IMPORTANT!We need your viewsPlease respond to this survey What you would like to see happening at Belhaven Community Garden in future if we succeed in securing community ownership?This survey is a crucial part of the ‘market research’ necessary for developing a business plan to accompany our ‘community asset transfer’ application to NHS Lothian.Please share with your…
Winter 2024 First, I would like to wish my supporters and volunteers a very Happy New Year, I hope it’s great! Well folks, we are past the winter solstice now so the days are getting longer – yippee! The nursery children have already sown some beautiful sweet peas. Last year some of the nursery classes…
The Pledgehog Project have some hedgehog highway hole signs to give away for free if you make a gap to let hedgehogs through your fence. Hedgehogs need a gap the size of a CD case (13 cm squared) to get into your garden or outdoor space. Once you have made your gap if you add…