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The Kitchen Garden

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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.

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The Kitchen Garden: 17/09/2015

17/09/2015

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Pennie Latin visits Gardening Leave in Erskine, a project for war veterans.

Pennie Latin visits Gardening Leave in Erskine, a project for war veterans which provides them with health education, peace and stability.

Pennie Latin is in the central belt this week and the first stop is Erskine, where an old garden centre is being used as a place of comfort, learning, socialising and therapy for veterans of war. Gardening Leave, described as a 'tarmac paradise', is made up of raised beds and polytunnels, where the veterans are growing food for themselves and the nearby hospital. The raised beds are made at a good height for people with mobility issues or bad backs. But it's not only raised beds here; it's hospital beds too. The beds donated by Erskine hospital have been adapted to grow veggies. Their height is adjustable for the volunteers and even better still, they can be wheeled into the sun light. Pennie stays for lunch and tries a potato pizza made by the volunteers. Next stop is another garden centre but this time in Alexandria. Here General Manager Thomas Callaghan has donated the use of a large green house to the Lomond foodbank.

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