Setting Up The Allotments in 2013
Some photos of how an empty field was turned into Aden Allotments way back in 2013. The photos were originally published on Facebook whih explains the white captions.
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Following positive feedback from the community consultation carried out by the Aden Development Worker in 2012 the Aden Community Allotments Association (ACAA) was formed to help develop allotments and a community garden within the grounds of Aden Country Park. The ACAA then went on to successfully apply for £77,000 of funding from Keep Scotland Beautiful - Climate Challenge Fund (CCF) to develop the site. The committee who set up the allotments were Lee Minion (chairperson, Georgia Skinner (secretary), William Bruce (treasurer, Neil Shirran (Aden Development Officer), Jack Grant (Aden Landscape manager), Donald Brown (Project Manager), Heather Dilworth, Gavin Minion, Dave Skinner, Kevin McDonald and Molly Wilkins.
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Some of the original committee who set up the allotments.
This will be the entrance......
......and the car park.
The field before work started.
Robbie Cadger has started work on the entrance.
Entrance complete.
Removing the soil from the car park area.
The surplus soil was moved to the north side of the site to increase the soil depth here.
Making the paths.
Where the path curves at the east end.
Sometimes the excavated soil was spread over the adjacent plots.
The edge of the path was tapered off so that everywhere would be level after ploughing.
Hardcore arriving .......
.......and being tipped in the car park area.
Robbie checking the levels for the drains.
This was the drain across the car park.
The drain pipe.
....into the track.
The north end of the car park where the cabin will eventually go.
You can see the different types of subsoil
Filling in the drains
This is the right hand drain looking towards the east.
This is the waterpipe for the tap beside the noticeboard
Keenans processing the compost.
Carrying through ......
.......to the site.
Unfortunately all this damaged the south west corner of the car park which had to be redone.
Charlie Cruickshank starting to plough. He became one of our first plotholders.
Ploughing.
Ploughed.