Community Growing Projects in Dunoon and surrounding areas

This map is a collaboration between Dunoon Community Development Trust and the Shaping Places for Wellbeing Programme. It features community-led growing initiatives in the Dunoon and Hunter's Quay areas that include a focus on food growing. Some of the projects are well established and others are just getting started or are at the planning stages.

In future, the map could be expanded to highlight food growing projects from further afield in Cowal and Bute, or to include projects that focus on growing for other reasons.

What would you like to see on this map? Do you have ideas for other sites you think should be included? Contact Becky.Hothersall@improvementservice.org.uk.

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Glenfinart Walled Garden

Built in the 1840s as a kitchen garden for the local estate, Glenfinart Walled Garden in Ardentinny is now community-led garden and in keeping with its kitchen garden roots. An orchard grows native fr...

Dùthchas Growing

Dùthchas is a small group of individuals from the PA23 community who are seeking to obtain land for a growing space that also includes mixed woodland. They are looking to obtain land which will be use...

The POP Shop Community Interest Company

The POP Shop's many green initiatives include a community rhubarb growing project, hosting growing workshops in collaboration with Grow Food Grow Dunoon, and a garden area growing flavour-giving ...

Grow Food Grow Dunoon

Grow Food Grow Dunoon is a project of Dunoon Community Development Trust. They are a group of people who came together because they wanted to grow their own food, not in a private allotment or garden,...

Dunoon Grammar School Learning Centre garden

Students and teaching staff from the Learning Centre maintain this garden site, which includes a polytunnel and raised beds as well as a wooded area with a pond and some fruit trees. The site is used ...

ESCAPE Afterschool care garden

ESCAPE is the East Cowal Afterschool Project serving Dunoon and surrounding areas. In 2023 the team set up a food growing area. Food is grown in raised beds and used in cooking activities as well as p...

Dunoon Food Bank and Community Hub garden

In the grounds of the community hub on Kirk Street are several raised beds made from pallets and other recycled materials. These are used to grow produce for the food bank and provide an opportu...

Scenic Sandbank community garden site

Scenic Sandbank was recently successful in its funding application to the Scottish Land Fund to create a community garden. The provisional site plans include raised beds for growing fruit and vegetab...