We know that to lead a successful Green Map project, it’s crucial to engage effectively with your audience and community. At the same time, publishing websites and managing digital content can be challenging and costly for small, community-based map projects. That’s why we have launched a set of features that allow you to create a custom Green Map website without needing to code. Using these tools, you can build your website from scratch, on a tight budget, and share your project with your community simply and effectively.
We are very excited to announce a new venture!! Plants are a hugely valuable resource and helping to keep their genetic diversity through seed saving is very important.
As we approach Autumn of 2024 the Dundee Seed Savers make the most of the sunnier days to collect their final seeds of the growing year.
Climate Week 2024 was a great learning experience. The learning started with the Harbor School Marine Affair’s two-week Green Map project - mapping Governors Island’s climate vulnerabilities, its eco-system services and the SDGs.
Testing the Green Map Website Builder with crowdsourcing the Open Digital Archive in mind. Have you created a Green Map project? Share it here. Recent or long past projects are requested to contribute a digital version of what they created - Green Maps, Media and Materials to this global archive. Preserve your work and help shine new attention on the places that helped your community make progress toward sustainability. Use them to reflect on what's working, and next steps toward verdant and just wellbeing.Green Map projects can be transformative! We're hoping you will tell us what this has meant for your project, whether it was started recently or 30 years ago. We're hoping you will consider making copyrighted materials and maps open source, so their contents can be re-used to better understand the road ahead. Please read this introduction, gather your files and upload here.
We created a documentary film about the highs and lows of Community growing and what gets in the way as we try to overcome barriers to Community growing. The film was funded by Social Action Inquiry Scotland. With thanks to Jek and Shan who put the film together.
The Green Spaces Team is working on an exciting project to map every green space in our community, from large parks to hidden garden spots. Set to launch soon, this initiative will create a detailed and interactive map that highlights these vital areas, helping residents explore and appreciate the natural beauty around them.
The SCAPE Water Quality App project is led by Professor Dan Collins and was developed with the help educators, scientists, designers, and programmers at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, the Luminosity Lab at ASU, the Telluride Institute in Telluride, Colorado, the GIS Collective in Berlin, Germany, and the Green Map System in New York.
We welcomed Rachel Kirk along to deliver a willow weaving workshop. She is a very patient and enthusiastic teacher! This is her website
During the year, New Yorkers are producing vegetables, herbs and fruit all over the city - yes, there could eggs, honey and more!Much of this local produce is grown in community gardens, verdant spots of life that provide abundant social and eco benefits alongside delicious tomatoes, colorful rainbow chard and spicy peppers.
There is so much life in a garden and we often don't even see it or it passes us by very quickly. We spent some time in our Community Garden learning how to take photos of the life that goes on all around us and capturing it on our phones.
We talk a lot about pests in the garden but really they are only doing what comes naturally when they damage our plants. This should really be encouraging us to live alongside our perceived pests. For years chemicals were the go to for pest control but as we realise the harm chemicals do to the environment and to beneficial insects we have to stop using them. The biggest thing I would encourage you to do is to know your garden and constantly look at your plants. This way you can see a problem as soon as it starts and it can be so much easier to deal with.
Back in Summer 2022, we faced a hot, dry summer. Every week, the SEPA water scarcity report painted a more concerning picture about the levels of water across Scotland. In Dundee we were "extremely dry" and one of our borders was especially impacted by this.
On Friday 19th July, Sarah Crowe, a PhD candidate at the University of Dundee, held a ‘creative, place-based solutions to flooding’ workshop at the centre. Participants worked as a team to generate ideas to reduce the risk of flooding from the Dighty Burn which used blue and green features to bring lots of benefits for the community. Participants used Lego, building blocks, modelling clay, stickers and other craft items to ‘model’ their ideas and show how the different features integrated into the environment.
We all like to save a bit of money! There are loads of garden tips to help with the mountain of garden jobs, most of it involves recycling, especially plastic bottles! Have a look at our tips https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H5Ri4_vXtI8VVxB7ILXebuMM5246DUFt/edit
We wanted to look at food growing on a large scale so where better to go than a visit to our very own Campy Growers. We had a brilliant behind the scenes tour of the site. They have 8 acres to work with on the site of the old council bedding plant nursery. There was a huge amount of removal of old weed suppression fabric and using a Broad fork (see pic where Fatima is modelling the Fork) to break up the compaction prior to planting. Huge poly tunnels were added and low raised beds. No chemicals are used on the site and most of the work is done by volunteers. A huge amount of veg is produced and there is a veg box scheme (sadly it is full up at the time of writing). Plus there is a veg stall every Saturday in Camperdown park in season near the Play park from 11-1pm.
It's so simple to create a Fairy Garden of your own, you can even do an indoor one if you don't have an outdoor space. We took a few simple, mainly foraged items , a bowl, a pot or container, shells, large and small pebbles, some ground cover Sedum, Viola odorata, Thyme, some flowers, sticks and bark from the garden. The main ingredient was creativity, we had bucket loads of that! The Fairy gardens had washing lines, fences, garden paths, ponds, toadstools, shelters and even flower borders. Have a look at the pictures.
The Community Growers were all delighted to be involved in the new Food Festival in the City Square this summer. We used the occasion to showcase all the work that goes on in the Growing spaces around the City. We served up over 250 free Mocktails made with herbs and flowers from the gardens. We had loads of fun and told visitors all about how to grow more plants for bees, how to make compost and how to sow seeds. We even made pots out of old newspapers. It was also a great chance to tell everyone about some of our volunteer opportunities and this shiny new website!
Advisor, Mapmaker
Thank you for visiting our site. We're dedicated to mapping and promoting the gardens and green spaces in our community. If you have any questions, suggestions, or information to share, please use the contact form below to get in touch with us.
Thank you for visiting our site. We're dedicated to mapping and promoting the gardens and green spaces in our community. If you have any questions, suggestions, or information to share, please use the contact form below to get in touch with us.
Thank you for visiting our site. We're dedicated to mapping and promoting the gardens and green spaces in our community. If you have any questions, suggestions, or information to share, please use the contact form below to get in touch with us.
Thank you for visiting our site. We're dedicated to mapping and promoting the gardens and green spaces in our community. If you have any questions, suggestions, or information to share, please use the contact form below to get in touch with us.
Thank you for visiting our site. We're dedicated to mapping and promoting the gardens and green spaces in our community. If you have any questions, suggestions, or information to share, please use the contact form below to get in touch with us.