The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
The community of Dunbog has been planting trees donated by the Woodland Trust in the community park. Digging in to the project are the Bibby family – Tilly, 5, Rowan, 12, Ken and Gemma and Rufus, 9. Picture by Steve MacDougall.
Aproject to provide a focal point for rural villages in north Fife is tak ing shape a fter volunteers turned out to help plant trees.
Dunbog Community Committee have been busy making improvements to the area, having bought a field near the village’s primary school.
Yesterday, volunteers of all ages planted saplings provided by the Woodland Trust.
Efforts will continue this week as children from Dunbog Primary School get involved in the project, with 420 more young trees to be planted.
The trust has provided native trees including hawthorn, rowan and silver birch, which have the potential to provide a rich habitat for wildlife.
New play equipment and picnic benches are being installed in the next phase of the project, and there are plans for a sports pitch.
Extensive groundwork has been done at the site off the A913 north-west of Cupar.
The community bought the field with help from the Scottish Land Fund three years ago.
In 2018 locals launched an imaginative fundraising campaign , gathering around £11,000 through events including a ceilidh, hog roast and Halloween hike.
Funding has also been provided by the Northwood Charitable Trust and three organisations supporting projects with money from landfill tax–Fife Environment Trust, Suez Communities Trust and Viridor Credits.
Ken Bibby from the committee said :“The community has been fundraising for quite a while to get this project done.
“It’s very rural here but there are quite a few children living locally.
“This will give them somewhere they can meet up and it will also be somewhere parents can meet up.
“It will be a great asset for such a rural community.”