The North Kelvin Meadow is a community group set up on 13 October 2008 to manage the green space between Clouston Street , Sanda Street and Kelbourne Street (G20 – North Kelvin Ward within Glasgow, Scotland). Also within this land which we mange is: a community orchard of 30 fruit trees, 2 tree houses, 2 mud kitchens for young kids, 3 compost bins (including the big wooden Number 1 in the far Kelb
ourne street corner thats awaiting your compost material) , an Elves and Fairy corner in an old disused flood light housing unit, 30 raised beds each rented by a person or family per year to grow vegetables in, and a community allotment with 6 raised beds, 2 honey bee hives, 6 bumble bee homes, 2 deer (Ok they are wooden deer!) and many muddy puddles to play in! We allow hands on experience regarding nature activities and believe this wild natural greenspace is of a great health benefit, both mental and physical, to this well built up area in Glasgow. Glasgow and especially the area this land is located in needs a better connection between people and nature. Many of theses young kids for example have never been in a woodland environment. They been in parks with avenues of planted trees but not a self seeded woodland and meadow. The area is predominantly high tenement flats with 8 flats in each block. They don’t normally have much of a garden, just a place for their communal bins. With Glasgow near the bottom of the health tables this land of ours is in the right place and providing the right solutions. Plus all this is done via a broad long standing constituted community group.
