Appeal for financial pledges NHS Lothian are currently evaluating our request to purchase Belhaven Community Garden so that it is protected in the long term for the benefit of everyone living in the local area. We expect to hear their decision in July. In the meantime, we are busy preparing an application to the Scottish Land…
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Meet the Bees
Saturday, 23rd May, 10am-1pm, Belhaven Community Garden A free workshop on honey bees and natural beekeeping. Spend a morning with the honey-bees. We will gather around the garden’s top-bar hives, observe life at the hive entrance, open a hive and learn more about honey-bee ecology, behaviour and low intervention, natural beekeeping. For anyone curious about…
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Seedling Swap
At Belhaven Community Garden, 2-4pm, Sunday 17th May Belhaven Community Garden is in the grounds of (the now disused) Belhaven Hospital (EH42 1TR) and can be accessed from Beveridge Row or from Pine Street.
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Meet the Honey Bees
Saturday 25th April, 10am-1pm, Belhaven Community Garden Meet the Bees -an introductory workshop for anyone interested to learn more about the life of a honey bee colony. Join us for a friendly morning gathering at Belhaven Community Garden. Meet the bees and learn how to “read” what’s happening in and around a hive. We’ll begin…
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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…
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Seedling Swap
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….
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…
NHS Lothian have announced the closure of Belhaven Hospital and of their intention to dispose of the site, including Belhaven Community Garden, as ‘surplus’ to their requirements. Do you support taking the site of Belhaven Community Garden into community ownership so as to protect this asset for the benefit of our community in the long…
The Green Team We are very happy to be back at Belhaven after such a long time away. Our first job was helping to build a Scarecrow for the shared beds. We all worked together and had a lot of fun stuffing one of Michael’s old shirts and a pair of Gordon’s old tracksuit bottoms. …
Catch up with Sustaining Dunbar’s garden outreach projects, run by Carey Douglas. Belhaven Green Team Michael and Gordon have been enjoying some outreach to help them with their own garden at home. We added a splash of colour to their borders with some pretty flowers donated by Dunbar in Bloom, thanks Bloomers! Michael and…