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The Kitchen Garden

Factual: Food & Drink

Factual: Homes & Gardens: Gardens

Pennie Latin

Celebrating the sheer joy of growing and cooking your own fruits, herbs and vegetables.

The Kitchen Garden team celebrate the joy of growing and cooking your own fruits, herbs and vegetables.

The Kitchen Garden: 10/09/2015

10/09/2015

BBC Radio Scotland - The Kitchen Garden, 10/09/2015

Pennie Latin visits the Woodlands Community Garden in Glasgow.

Pennie Latin visits the Woodlands Community Garden in Glasgow where she gets drafted in to help cook in their weekly community cafe.

Be prepared for your idea of a kitchen garden to get turned on its head. Forget your walled gardens, your water features, perfect lawns, symmetrical rows, and Victorian glasshouses because this week it's all about, derelict gap sites, concrete spaces, radio masts and busy roads. Yes, you heard right! Pennie Latin visits the Woodlands community garden in Glasgow. Here a previously derelict gap site has been transformed into a beautiful, luscious and vibrant community garden. At this time of year everything is flowering and bursting with life in the individual raised beds. We hear from some of the 'raised-bedders', finding out what they are growing, what they are learning and what brought them here in the first place. Not only are the volunteers busy in the garden here, but they also help out in the community kitchen in Maryhill. Each week they feed up to 60 people for free and provide cookery demonstrations. All this plus Pennie re-visits another garden in Possilpark. This 'serene' garden is built upon concrete, right next to a busy road, with a radio mast in the garden...but yet still provides it users with a sense of calm, peace and belonging. Pennie catches up with 'the concrete garden' gang and finds out what's changed in the last year.

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