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Rhubarb – Young plants which will establish quickly at £5 per pot and only one per household. Primula (perennials) £1.50 per pot and only one per household Please place your order with either Angie on 810352 or Eileen on 810253 and you will be invoiced for the the full amount in due course. So please […]

In the Garadh we have a small selection of our flowers and some compost now available for sale. Details below for price and quantity. Please place your order with either Angie on 810352 or Eileen on 810253 and you will receive an invoice in due course; payment can be made by BACS (preferably), Cheque & […]

Over the coming weeks as the weather starts to improve and we are all eager to get out in our gardens, the folks here at the Garadh are looking to post some tips and advice to help us get our gardens ready for planting out in May. Helen is first with her recommendations, she is […]

A moment in time from a few weeks ago when life felt normal, we were picking our carpet and lino colours. Also some progress photographs from inside our new build. We will be posting some updates about the Garadh over the next few days. Watch this space!

The Garadh is currently closed to the public as part of the COVID19 restrictions but as food producers, staff are taking turns to keep things going. Individuals work in isolation, in our own areas and with strict bio-security standards. WE are looking to grow a lot of edible crops this year. We don’t know how […]

Everyone at the Garadh has been saddened by the death of dear Martha MacDonald. She was the first volunteer to get involved when the service started in 1995 with permission to dig up the Taigh Ceilidh garden and grow potatoes for the Adult Learners and Alzheimer’s groups which met there. The first job was to […]

Huge thanks to everyone who came along to our Indoor Car Boot Sale on Saturday in Castebay community School. We were delighted to raise £602. Thanks to all the people manning the array of stalls, to everyone who made up the sandwiches, baked the cakes, poured the teas and coffees and as always our lovely […]

Garadh a Bagh a tuath has been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the higest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK. Garadh a’ Bhàgh a Tuath are one of only 24 organisations from across Scotland to be awarded the prestigious Queen’s Award this year and have been awarded it for providing […]

On Saturday 4th May we headed to Clachan for our annual plant sale day on North Usit and what a day we had!  People were waiting for us to arrive and we sold loads of our lovely planters, shrubs and a whole variety of bedding plants.  Our sales were up on last year by over […]

The big metal storage containers have arrived on site and work has started on the space between them.  Last Friday, volunteers built the initial framework and diggers arrived today to lay the concrete.  All this work was made possible by the funding we were awarded this year from the Youth Philanthropy Fund.  The Castlebay Community […]