An innovative community project has created more than 40 job opportunities since it launched a service offering gardening and soft landscaping work – creating an ‘oasis of greenery’ in the Ayrshire community.
The Knowe Garden Centre, in Auchinleck, has evolved into a commercial gardening operation after being developed from a derelict site eight years ago.
As well as growing and selling plants and providing a public garden area for the community, The Knowe sells its services to local residents – offering garden tidy-ups, grass cutting and general soft landscaping.
The project is aiming to continue to add to the 40 staff it has already hired on minimum six-month paid contracts – with 28 of them going on to find full-time work.
The Knowe is one of the inspirational community success stories to now feature in the latest edition of the MyLand.Scot campaign, an initiative run by the Scottish Land Commission to highlight how land is being used positively around Scotland for the benefits of the wider community.
The Knowe is part of the Auchinleck Community Development…
