Rattray Community Garden

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Rattray Community Garden

Rattray Community Garden

Rattray Community Garden is a volunteer-led garden for growing vegetables and flowers and increasing biodiversity. It is a community hub that encourages sustainability, environmental stewardship, and shared responsibility. Visitors are welcome during opening hours, which are each Wednesday and Saturday from 10am until 1pm. Volunteers are always welcome too!

Would you like to volunteer with us?

If you would like to volunteer with Rattray Community Garden, please email info@rattraycommunitygarden.org.uk for more information.

Keep up-to-date with activities through the  Rattray Community Garden website or the Rattray Community Garden facebook page

A little history of the garden:

Purchased for the town in 2021 thanks to support from the Scottish Land Fund, and developed with support from the Scottish Government’s Shovel Ready fund, The Gannochy Trust and Perth and Kinross Council’s Community-Led Local Development (CLLD) fund, Rattray Community Garden is based in what used to be a walled garden for Mount Ericht House and has been a home for award-winning environmental group Blairgowrie and Rattray in Bloom for a number of years and when the opportunity came to buy the land, the site was secured by Blairgowrie and Rattray Development Trust as a community asset which is now one of the Trust's core projects.

The purchase and redevelopment of the community garden was highlighted in the Community Action Plan following an extensive community consultation exercise carried out in 2020. The aim is to develop the garden to facilitate intergenerational activity and educational sessions, reduce food poverty by developing and maintaining an area - including raised beds - to grow fruit and vegetables for our community, and increase biodiversity with careful management and planting.

Whilst establishing a hub for food production, education and wellbeing, contributing to efforts to achieve net zero and improve environmental sustainability, Rattray Community Garden remains home to Blairgowrie and Rattray in Bloom.