Sustainable Kirriemuir

18/06/2026

Look out for our Action for Nature volunteers and Kirriemuir Scouts in their fabulous T-shirts over the coming weeks as they raise awareness of these incredible birds during ‘Swift Season’.

Thank you to Stephanie from Knittywits for working with our volunteers to create these T-shirts for us!

Tayside Swifts
Tayside Biodiversity

💙 Supporting a Local Project Close to Our Hearts 💙

We were delighted to work alongside Sustainable Kirriemuir and Kirriemuir Scout Group to create these bespoke t-shirts featuring their fantastic “Help Kirrie Swifts” logo. 🐦

Swifts are an incredible part of our local wildlife, but their numbers are declining. This project helps raise awareness and encourages our community to support and protect these amazing birds for future generations.

Using the logo designed for the campaign, we created custom organic cotton t-shirts that are perfect for spreading the message and showing support for a cause that matters. 🌍✨

We love being able to help local groups bring their ideas to life through personalised clothing and merchandise.

If your organisation, charity, club, or community group is looking for custom apparel, we’d love to help. Get in touch to discuss your project! 💙

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17/06/2026

Remember a couple of weeks ago our Farm did a shout out looking for support with small scale machinery? We were looking to borrow a rotavator to build paths.

Step forward Cameron! A local estate worker who decided to volunteer his time, skills and access to machinery to help us. Cameron brought along a tractor and removed the stones from the pathways for us, he then prepped the paths with a fancy ( to us!) stone burrier. We feel so lucky to be surrounded by a farming community, one that steps up to help others. Thanks Cameron for saving us lots of time and effort, we owe you!

Although we are a little behind with seeding, our Farm volunteers were then able to hand sow the paths with a mixture of seed designed to combine a low growing grass surface with a resource for pollinators and other beneficial insects. We aim to allow flowering species to bloom throught summer and early autumn.

The herbal lay that the Wylies helped to sow last month is looking lush thanks to all the warm, wet weather we’ve been having. The beds that Andy volunteered to help prepare with his tractor are also now full of crops!Last week we headed up the glens to collect sheep fleece from the lovely Meg, auld fence posts from Loyal Farm and wood from Charlie which the volunteers are already utilising to build cold frames at the community garden and hopefully a wall in the packing shed.

So again, it’s a big thank you to our local community for helping our small scale farm thrive.

Sustainable Kirriemuir.

12/06/2026

Join us on a longer walk out to Culhawk to discover one of our volunteers beautiful wildflower garden!

We will be starting from Kinnordy Gate house at 10am on Friday 16th June, no booking necessary but always good to know you are coming! Email; [email protected]

Bring a packed lunch and a drink, waterproofs and suncream!!

https://www.sustainablekirriemuir.co.uk/2026/02/19/walk-to-culhawk/

11/06/2026

CSA Share | Week 2 of 2026

What would you make with this? Any ideas for the garlic scapes?

CSA Network UK - Community Supported Agriculture
Sustainable Kirriemuir

09/06/2026

Some recent photos from the Market Garden at the Sustainable Kirriemuir Farm.

Our packing shed is coming on wonderfully thanks to our amazing volunteers and their skills. We’ve finally got round to using the last of our salvaged pews from Glens and Kirriemuir United Parish. Once seating for the church congregation is now worktops and shelving for our farm team to prepare produce on.

We can’t wait to start using it for our veg share members to collect their veg from. 🥬

09/06/2026

08/06/2026

Northmuir Primary Update

Its been a very busy few months in the garden and polytunnel at Northmuir Primary School. We have most of our veggies planted - peas, french beans, sweetcorn, carrots, garlic, onions, beetroot, spinnach, tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, herbs and lots of fruit so lots to look forward to tasting.
We have experimented sowing lettuce - sprinkling the seed by hand and planting 'seed tape' and will see which one does best.
For Earth Week we made more nature friendly new habitats around the school. This included 3 large bug houses, a hibernaculum, a bee sand box, log piles and more pollinator beds filled with lots of different shaped flowers to accomodate different pollinators feeding habits, tongue lengths etc.
The Red Campion plants we grew from seed are now looking amazing and will especially be enjoyed by bumblebees.

Linzi
Community Gardener (Schools)

03/06/2026

Last week our Action for Nature volunteers had the pleasure of visiting Bamff Wildland and Ecotourism near Alyth for a guided tour and an evening beaver watch. Sophie Ramsay kindly led the walk and told us of the history, and current and future plans for the estate.

Over the past twenty years there has been a gradual orientation of their practices towards improving the biodiversity and nature of the estate. Activity has been turbo-charged over the past few years by the removal of many internal fences and the addition of a small number of free-roaming Luing cattle, a herd of Exmoor ponies and some Tamworth pigs. The free-movement of the animals and their ability to choose where and how they graze and behave gives opportunities to all sorts of other species of plants and insects which in turn supports bigger mammals and birds. Native trees and shrubs have been planted and there is a variety of standing dead wood available for many species such as owls, bats, other birds, insects and fungi.

Some years ago beavers were released and since then they have created wetland areas which are full of rich aquatic life. The estate have welcome biologists to research the effects of the beavers activity and this has shown waterways that are much more diverse than areas without beavers. The icing on the cake was that we were treated to a view of a large beaver eating his or her tea and collecting up mud for a dam.

All in all a fascinating and inspiring evening, thank you Sophie!