A project to create a community garden and give away its food for free has taken root in an Angus town.
The Food Is Free Carnoustie group hopes to bring people together with the purpose of taking neglected spaces and gardens in the town and turning them into gardens, which then provide free harvests.
Once the fruit and vegetables are ready, it will be harvested and displayed in various public places around the town and offered free to anyone who wants it.
Food Is Free is a community building and gardening movement that started in Austin, Texas, but has now become a community movement around the world.
A public meeting last year showed there was sufficient interest in organisers Laura-May Kennedy and Laura Tierney taking the idea further.
A piece of ground at Panmure Industrial Estate has been donated to the project by Smyth Composites and was cleared of weeds by DJ Laing.
Last weekend almost 50 people in the town started preparing the ground for growing, as well as building compost bins and clearing up.
Laura-May said she was overwhelmed at the interest in the project.
She said: “The Big Dig day was a great success. There were 32 adults and 14 children and teenagers all helping out on the day.
“It was a great community effort to help get the area ready for planting.
“In the next few weeks the plan is to coppice and plant some willow, place raised beds on the site and get them ready for planting and start building sheds and greenhouses.”
“We also had a few people ask us to help pick their fruit trees so we have had lots of apples and plums to give out.”
A variety of vegetables will be grown including potatoes, broad beans, beetroot, carrots, onions, leeks, kale, garlic, peas, lettuce and other salad leaves.
Tomatoes, chillies, peppers and cucumbers will be grown in polytunnels or a greenhouse.
There will also be a herb garden and wildflower beds to encourage bees and other wildlife.
A seed swap day is planned and there will be a stall at Carnoustie Gala Day.
People who would like to become involved in the project are asked to email fifcarnoustie@gmail.com.
The Food is Free movement started in January 2012 in Texas when John Van Deusen began growing food to give away in his front garden.
Within three months the majority of his neighbours also had community gardens. Now there are Food is Free groups in 190 countries.