| Welcome to the website of the Organic Growers of Fairlie and their Sustainable Community Garden project.
This is an association of village residents in Fairlie , Ayrshire, Scotland, registered as a charity and who are all committed to living healthier, more sustainable lifestyles and improving the environment using techniques. A derelict brownfield site has been turned into a lovely, peaceful grow-your-own mini allotment garden (the Fairlie Organic Garden) using innovative composting and vermi-culture techniques. This web site includes a video of the garden, a large collection of pictures showing the garden throughout its development, several FAQs on vermi-culture/composting and news & events pages.
Construction of our second poly tunnel (84ft long!) continues with raised-beds being installed. We will have doors in due course!
Latest updates - - Added new photographs to Second Poly-tunnel Build (4/2/10)
- Updated Eco-Warriors page with slide-show of pictures taken during Tree o'clock. (8/12/09)
- Updated Eco-Warriors page and Hints, Tips, Successes and Failures page. (25/11/09)
- Added link on Links page to GrowYourOwn - a web page from a Scottish-based vegetable plot owner with 170 pages containing over 550 demonstration photos (20/11/09)
- Added minutes of Committee Meeting held on 2nd. November 2009 to Members Page. If anyone would like a soft (or paper) copy sent direct please send a request using the E-mail address on the Contact Us page . (13/11/09)
- Large update of Garden Diary page including Phase 3 build plans, future garden events and news of other groups and events. (4/11/09)
- Added news and pictures of Thanksgiving display, garden visits and Forres garden to Garden Diary page (16/10/09)
- Added news of CCF Gathering and planned joint awareness event to Garden Diary page (10/9/09)
- Added news of new funding for the garden, pictures of latest visitors to the garden, Largs Flower Show exhibit and other garden groups to Garden Diary page (2/9/09)
- Added picture of latest visitors to the garden to Garden Diary page (25/8/09)
- Added Open Day report, picture of Open Day to Garden Diary page and link to Open Day slideshow. (17/8/09)
- Added information on our Open Day and pictures of garden visitors and some of our produce to the Garden Diary page . (22/7/09)
- Video of royal visit to Garden Show exhibit updated to add some photos and now in HQ! (17/6/09)
- Garden Diary page updated with news and pictures from The Gardening Show Scotland2009 exhibit including our Royal visitor. Two new pages have also beenadded with a slide show of the exhibit and also a video kindly made by Neil Stuart. (2/6/09)
 The Organic Gardeners of Fairlie were present at the Gardening Scotland Show in the 'Big Back Garden' on Friday 29th to Sunday 31st May. We built a small replica of our garden in Fairlie with raised beds, wormeries and hot-box composters and received lots of visits by interested gardeners and one very special Royal visitor!
The Climate Challenge Fund sponsored our garden at the show and has b een a MAJOR source of funding this year to allow us to extend the garden in Fairlie by building more beds for the waiting-list of gardeners who have been patiently waiting to get growing.
For more information and support on applying to the Climate Challenge Fund (helping communities to reduce their carbon emissions) contact Keep Scotland Beautiful on:
#email: ccf@ksbscotland.org.uk
tel: 01786 471333
Web page www.infoscotland.com/climatechallengefund
 A sunny day in the garden and the flowers on the chives are really attracting the bees.
OGF - "leading the way for sustainable communities" ... but walking in the footsteps of Charles Darwin who concluded in 1866
"It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part as the lowly earthworm, in the history of the world...".  See where the global worming message is going....
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