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.
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