North Kelvin Meadow Glasgow

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The North Kelvinside meadow is a beautiful green space, children’s wood and horticultural paradise. It’s open and free to use for all members of the community — check the website, you can join in. 

For 25 years the site of an old football pitch has grown into this urban meadow. The local community over the past 10 years has turned the overgrown jungle into their very own garden of Eden. They’ve pooled their skills together to build raised beds for planting vegetables, herbs and flowers, an orchard, an adventure playground with tree houses for children, social gathering spaces with fire pits, a BMX track and occasional sculpture park. This space in the West End near the river Kelvin is used by the whole surrounding community every day.

Over 22 schools in the area use it for children to learn about all aspects of urban nature and for events such as The Gruffalo story telling and family fun days with local musicians poets and community groups. The space is used by dog walkers and the meadow for social gatherings, barbecues or just to sit and chill, play the guitar or read a book.

Great news as Meadow has been awarded £50,000 community pride prize from Scottish Television. 

The garden has now been enhanced with a giant beehive, or beedookit, that’s being constructed τo house thousands of bees.

 

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Scott from Glasgow

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Address

Kelbourne Street 76, Glasgow

Opening Times

24 hours daily

Website

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Last Changed Date: 2016-05-19 11:45:13 +0200 (Thu, 19 May 2016)