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Earth Hour

A great event in Falkirk on Saturday night, do come along if you can.

Between 1 and 4 pm, there will be plenty happening off the High Street in the church grounds too - including an Earth Hour Wish tree.

Planting Beans at Bean Row

The Bean Row community garden took a great leap forward at the recent planning meeting (Sunday 19th February). Local group members met at the site to plan the veg plot and discussed how to transform our fourth garden into a local food demonstration garden. Space was planned for our stovies and soup patch, where to put the compost bin and what we can get from donations and what we need to buy.







The session finished with everyone present planting a bean sead. An appropriate start to the Bean Row garden.

Star Award

Friends of the Earth Falkirk were given recognition from Falkirk Council Litter Strategy team for their community gardens and litter picks over the year.

On Yer Bike

Over 350 people, most of them on their bikes, gathered outside the office of the Scottish Government on Wednesday 11th January to urge Scottish Ministers to increase funding for cycling and walking instead of funding expensive road-building programmes that will increase Scotland’s carbon footprint. Friends of the Earth Falkirk took part in the Stop Climate Choas Action along with other Friends of the Earth Activists from across the country. This was a well attended action with groups and individuals turning up on their bikes to show there is a stong demand for better funding for cycling and walking facilities in the next budget. The local group will be taking forward its cycle campaign to promote everyday cycling in Falkirk over 2012.

Falkirk Energy Fair

Friends of the Earth Falkirk are holding the Falkirk Energy Fair on Wednesday 14th December at Falkirk Old and St Modans Church, Manse Place, Falkirk, FK1 1JN, We have speakers confirmed from Transition Linlithgw and Community Energy Scotland. The event will have stalls to encourage energy reduction and the Fair will start with a cafe at 5pm if people are only able to come for the energy advice. The speakers will start at 7pm and there will be workshops around 8pm for group discussion.

The Fourth and Final Garden gets under way

The fourth, the biggest and the final Friends of the Earth Falkirk community garden got its initial turn over on Saturday 22nd October. The Bean Row garden is south facing and will enable to group to grow food, demonstrate composting and provide plants for the other three gardens.


The reason the Garden needed some TLC

Work started on Community Garden in Kings Court

With the negotiations with the owner of the land Friends of the Earth Falkirk have been given permission to maintain two town centre gardens. The Kings Court Garden (pictured) is a dark area where litter has been a long term issue. A litter pick on Sunday cleared a collection of fast food wrappers, bottles and cans. The hope is that if a community garden can be established the litter can be reduced.

Our final community garden will be developed on Bean Row, just round the corner. This will be a good space to grow flowers and food. Work will start on the both gardens over the next couple of weeks to get it in shape for planting after the winter.

Clean Zone Sign on Orphan Land Garden

Our Clean Zone sign which explains that Friends of the Earth Falkirk have adopted the Arnot Street Garden has been put up on our garden wall. The sign has been provide by Falkirk Council Litter Strategy Team as part of our involvement in their Orphan Land Pilot Project.