by Andy Devine The Bellsmyre Community Garden team adapted to the pandemic challenges and continued to thrive under the guidance of Martin Love and Pat Lally. They were just about to launch their spring plant sale in March 2020 as the first lockdown started and moved this to … [Read more...] about Gardening Through Covid
Environment
Sanitary Sustainability
by Jacqueline Bruce The last week of November 2020 will forever be a monumental week in human rights history. It was the week Scotland became the first country in the world to end period poverty. When free sanitary products first started being distributed through schools, … [Read more...] about Sanitary Sustainability
A Home From Home
by Zoe Weir PHOTO CREDITS: STOP POLLUTION IN GABES When international COP26 delegates were left without accommodation due to high demand and rocketing prices, folk across West Dunbartonshire opened their homes to welcome them via the COP26 Homestay network. Zoe Weir, a … [Read more...] about A Home From Home
Community Growing
Words by Angela Clark A community farm in Dumbarton is being brought back to life and is helping people improve their mental and physical well-being. The 15.5 acre site at Dumbarton’s Castlehill Road will provide a place where people can take time out of their daily stresses … [Read more...] about Community Growing
Taking Climate Action
By Emily Fraser Looking around me in the lead up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26), watching and listening to everything, was making my head spin. I wanted to write about the more subtle forms of climate activism happening locally - in … [Read more...] about Taking Climate Action