Popalong togarden forburger andchat

Braehead Community Garden are firing up the barbecue and inviting their neighbours for a free burger and catch up on Saturday afternoon (June 10) from 1pm to 4pm.

Thanks to the Big Lottery “Celebration” fund, there are now picnic tables, barbecues and enough burgers and hotdogs to give the first 100 Braehead and Broomridge residents through the doors a free lunch.

Visitors will also get to meet the chickens and honey bees and see the two and a half acre garden.

The new wetland and community orchard, both funded by Network Rail who also helped to build them, will also be unveiled.

There will also be plants for sale, which were grown in the garden polytunnels.

Braehead Community Development Trust’s Chris Kane said: “We don’t get together with our neighbours nearly enough these days and at Braehead Community Garden we thought we’d change that.

“I have a vivid memory of a street party in Broomridge when I was five or six years old and I’d like my kids to make a similar memory.

“I would also really like the chance to sit down and have a natter with people I might only see in the playground when I’m picking up my kids or in the newsagent when I’m buying my Stirling Observer.

“When we saw there was funding available from the Big Lottery, we jumped at the chance to put a modern twist on a good old fashioned street party and I hope Braehead and Broomridge residents will join us for a burger”