Mandala Garden Project

12/08/2026

SIGN-UP FOR A LOCAL VEG BOX!

We are still expanding the Mandala Garden Project membership with the aim of making the project financially sustainable. You can join by signing up at https://mandalagardenproject.ooooby.org/

The project, now in its 6th year, is a mandala of activities, rooted in the principles of permaculture: Earth care, People care, Fair share, and Co-creation with Nature and Regenerative Agriculture. The heart of the mandala is an organic / biodynamic market garden, running a community supported agriculture scheme (CSA), providing local, fresh vegetables to over 50 local households. More about our cropshare at https://mandalagarden.uk/web/MarketGarden/CropShareBoxes

Please email [email protected] with any questions.

The Mandala Garden Project is a charitable company (SC808533, SC054552) - Certified organic and Biodynamic

Biodynamic Association CSA Network UK - Community Supported Agriculture

22/07/2026

This Saturday (25th July, 2-4pm) another Fermentation Session.

They've been a blast and we've got loads of fermented fennel to share, as well as new ferments to make. Do sign up and join us!

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/mandalagardenproject/2231891

The sessions are free, you can reduce the suggested donation amount to £0.

Thanks again to the Williamson Trust and Royal Society of Edinburgh for their support of the "Fermenting Community" research project at Mandala Garden!

14/07/2026

We are expanding the Mandala Garden Project membership in July/August with the aim of making the project financially sustainable. You can join by signing up at https://mandalagardenproject.ooooby.org/

The project, now in its 6th year, is a mandala of activities, rooted in the principles of permaculture: Earth care, People care, Fair share, and Co-creation with Nature and Regenerative Agriculture. The heart of the mandala is an organic / biodynamic market garden, running a community supported agriculture scheme (CSA), providing local, fresh vegetables to over 50 local households.

Please email [email protected] with any questions about our veg box crop share! If you find that the Mandala Garden veg box is not a good fit for you in the first month, the £30 annual membership fee will be refunded.

The Mandala Garden Project is a charitable company (SC808533, SC054552) - Certified organic and biodynamic

Biodynamic Association CSA Network UK - Community Supported Agriculture

Mandala Garden Project specialises in getting local food to you. It's like a farmers market in a box.

26/06/2026

There are Mandala cropshare members in the Findhorn Ecovillage looking to share their veg boxes. One looking to share a small fortnightly veg box and another looking to share a small weekly veg box. Send an email to [email protected] and we'll put you in touch!

19/06/2026

A heartfelt thank you to the Williamson Trust and Royal Society of Edinburgh for their support of the "Fermenting Community" project at Mandala Garden!

19/06/2026

Fermentation Sessions

There will be regular fermentation sessions at the Mandala Garden from June to October funded by a "Healthy Planet, Healthy People" community-led research grant from the Williamson Trust and Royal Society of Edinburgh.

As the fermentation sessions are part of a research project and if you're reading this you're part of the Mandala Garden community, it would be much appreciated if you could fill in the research survey (even if you don't plan to attend the sessions): https://forms.gle/eq9J3x6dzQQkKUPw9.

With more and more surplus/veg beds that need clearing, it's time to ferment together! The sessions are free to attend and any donation is completely optional. Our crop share members will always hear about the upcoming sessions before we advertise them more widely.

The first Saturday "Fermenting Community" session will take place on World Microbiome Day (June 27th, 2-4pm). Secure your spot here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/mandalagardenproject/2267409.

The next Wednesday "Fermenting Community" session will be on July 15th, as part of the usual Wednesday volunteer morning (10am-noon). Please sign-up at: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/mandalagardenproject/2231891.

15/06/2026

We are expanding the Mandala Garden Project membership in July/August with the aim of making the project financially sustainable. Please email [email protected] to join our veg box crop share!

08/05/2026

Biodynamic means treating the farm as a living organism where soil, plants, animals and people work in balance.

Mandala Garden was recently featured in the Biodynamic Association's Star & Furrow magazine. Article or not, it really means a lot to me to be part of the Biodynamic movement. Therefore the Biodynamic Certification was one of the first things that was important to me when starting Mandala Garden. We are fully certified for 4 years now.

I would like to highlight a few details of what this means. Biodynamic Certification includes Organic Certification. We get inspected every year and I have to declare all inputs that are used for growing our produce to be of organic standard or as close to it as possible and GM free - from every seed package to potting mix to manure. And of course a full schedule of all Biodynamic preparations used timely and correctly to illustrate that we have a good grasp of Biodynamic methods to support overall balance and vitality in soil and plants.

In other words:
- no synthetic inputs
- zero pesticides
- only using natural preparations to stimulate soil life
- a minimum of 10% of the land dedicated to biodiversity
- cosmic and seasonal rhythms guide sowing and harvesting
- self-sufficiency - limited external inputs

We are proud to grow Demeter produce for you and hope you will enjoy this season's produce - all growing while I'm writing.

17/04/2026

Celebration of the Additional Polytunnel on May 13th

Thank you again for your generous support which made an additional polytunnel at Mandala Garden possible. We have now (re)built the polytunnel we're reusing from Bruntlands, prepared the ground and planted the first plants!

We would like to invite you to our celebration of the new polytunnel and season on Wednesday, May 13th at noon. We will mark the occasion with a short fire ceremony as part of our usual Wednesday volunteer morning (10am-lunch). Do join us if you can!

The new year is off to a bright start at Mandala Garden! We're very delighted to share that The Pebble Trust has given us the remaining funding needed to erect the additional tunnel! Many Thanks!!!!🙂

We are now ready to spring to action and start putting up the second hand tunnel we got from Clare and Sam at Bruntlands (https://www.bruntlands.co.uk/)! All this is only possible with the help of our generous community support! What a blessing!

Established in 2014, the Pebble Trust has a vision for a more sustainable, fair, and low-carbon society, where constraints on fossil fuels lead to a more localised economy with stronger, more resilient communities. (https://www.thepebbletrust.org/)