Grow Dunvegan

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02/04/2025

Meet up at Dunvegan Community Cafe this Friday at 2PM!

Hi all, for anyone who’d like to meet up please do come along to the community cafe this Friday at 2pm. We can have a chat about potential projects and what matters to you in terms of the environment and the community.

Friday meet-up at the community cafe, 2pm Hi folks, This is to confirm that we'll be having the first get-together for t...
03/03/2025

Friday meet-up at the community cafe, 2pm

Hi folks,
This is to confirm that we'll be having the first get-together for this group on Friday, the 7th, at the community cafe in Dunvegan. I'm looking forward to seeing you there.

I also wanted to say a big thank you to Anne MacAskill and the Dunvegan Castle Gardening team for donating their lovely snowdrops to the Playpark, which we've planted up this weekend.

Finally, I thought I'd share the 'what's on' section from this month's Skye Climate Action Newsletter in case any of the events interest the members of this group.

LOCAL EVENTS
Saturday 1 March, 7:30 pm : Breakish Windfarm Action Group Ceilidh at Broadford Hall. Info here.

Wednesday 5 March, 6 - 9 pm: Another Thought: nature-based reading group, Portree

Saturday 15 March, 2 - 5:45 pm and 6:30 - 8:30 pm: Bivalve Murals Celebration. Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Sleat.

Saturday 15 March, 11:30 and and Sunday 16 March 12:00: Sleat Nature Group Otter walk and talk with Roger Cottis

Saturday 22 March, 11 am - 3 pm: Sustainable Skye. Broadford Campsite & Growers Hub

Wednesday 26 March, 11 am - 1 pm: South Skye Electrical Amnesty, Kyleakin Hall

Thursday 27 March, 6 - 8.30pm. ReRoot Film Club showing Common Ground at Skye Bridge Studios 123, Kyle

Friday 28 March, 7:30 pm John Muir Trust’s Skye work. Talk by John MacRae, Properties Manager, at An Crùbh.

Tuesday 1st April: Start of citizen science pollinator counts with the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme. Continues until 30 September.

Wednesday 9th April, 10 am - 5 pm: WASTE NOT starts up again

ONLINE
Thursday 6 March, 10.00 - 11.45: Buglife : Managing Green Spaces in B-Lines for Pollinators

Tuesday 11 March, 17.30 - 19.00: Community Woodlands Association: Tree Identification

Link to read the full newsletter with more information can be found here: https://mailchi.mp/e8b1999d17dc/skye-climate-action-news-18322212?e=019a4440ed

27/02/2025

Monthly meet-ups. Scheduling

Please comment below with your preferred day/time for a monthly meet-up. To maintain some regularity, let's keep it to the same week of each month (I'm proposing the first week).

Suggestions:
- Fridays 2pm
- Saturdays 11am
- Saturdays 2pm
- Sundays 11am
- Sundays 2pm

26/02/2025

Hi everyone,

I'd love to get our green group going again to coordinate environmental projects in and around Dunvegan. The ‘Grow Dunvegan’ team has kindly allowed me to use their page for communications, as it already has many green-fingered and eco-minded individuals.

If there is an appetite, I can arrange a monthly meet-up at the community café on the first Friday of each month at 2 PM. This will be an informal gathering for anyone interested in getting involved. No commitments are required, but if you’d like to volunteer or propose a project, please come along!

Here are some activities that have been suggested that we might focus on:
• Maintaining the car park seed station
• Caring for local green spaces
• Beach Cleans and marine litter recycling
• Native tree/ hedge planting
• Creating wildlife corridors
• Establishing a community growing space/allotment/polytunnel
• Inviting occasional speakers to learn more about various topics that affect us, such as whale and dolphin protection, seagrass, coastal erosion, and peatlands.
• Establishing a community nature/wildlife garden and pond
• Planting native wildflower verges that are bee- and butterfly-friendly
• Promoting wildlife-friendly practices, such as "No Mow May"

I’m trying to get an idea of whether folk would be interested in this, so please like this post if you would be interested in joining. If I get more than 5 people, I’ll arrange the first meet-up for Friday, March 7th, at 2PM.

All the best,
Katy

26/02/2025

Do you have snowdrops in your garden?

You may have noticed that our new park is almost ready for use. There is a bank that could use flowers by the trees near the road.

Now is a great time to split your snowdrops, so if you have any and are willing to donate some to the park, we'd really appreciate it. You can plant them yourself or bring them to the park opening on March 15th.

Many thanks 🌱

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