No Mow May

       No Mow May



No Mow May is Plantlife’s annual campaign urging everyone to set aside their lawnmowers, allowing wildflowers to grow freely and supporting nature. Whether you live in a city, town, or the countryside, it’s easy to participate.


This year 2025, we at PCHub had sought permission from the council to stop mowing the open grassland at the hub, which spans nearly two acres.Having this amount of grass that's not allowed to flower is a tragic waste of arable land,this could be an area that produced enough food to end the hubs users current reliance upon supermarkets, what we do at present is try to shop local, as per circular economy innitiatives, At the hub, we see ourselves as leaders in advancing our community toward environmentally friendly organic food-growing objectives. We are environmental protectors, viewing ourselves as part of nature, rather than in opposition to it -  unfortunately the broader community are lagging in this and in many cases actively destroying our ecosystems.




We Scots have become accustomed, or socially conditioned, to view parkland and grassy areas as pleasant spaces for human enjoyment. This perspective needs to change; we must recognize that these environments are entirely man-made and unsustainable at their current scale. In light of increasing extreme weather events, droughts, flash floods, and biodiversity loss, we need to transform our communities into rainwater garden sponges.



Additionally, the practice of every household owning its own lawnmower and garden equipment should be discouraged. At the hub, we offer a gardening tool library where local residents can borrow tools by simply joining our community. This not only promotes the benefits of green social prescriptions but also encourages sharing and cooperation, ultimately helping restore nature, achieve cleaner water, and improve air quality. The era of diesel-driven lawnmowers polluting our residential areas and parklands must come to an end, as it is unsustainable and detrimental to biodiversity and air quality.


No lawn is too small! Even the tiniest patch of wildflowers can provide essential food for bees and butterflies, connecting us with nature and giving it the best start to summer. Polmont Community Hub and Braes Friendly Growers. would lovingly like to give a gentle reminder to all local residents, there is appropriate times of the year for trimming bushes, trees and hedgerows!



A substantial amount of grassland is being mowed, and trees bushes and hedgerows cut by the council, housing estate factors,other local community groups, and residents. We aim to educate the district and Community Council to recognize this as an act of environmental vandalism. We hope that they will then pressure the Scottish government to reconsider, and in the future bring in governmental regulations. Future generations may look back at our actions as acts of environmental destruction! Are you/we guilty of ecocide? given the extent of the biodiversity crisis we face today. If we do not act now, we risk complicitly participating in environmental destruction on an industrial scale.



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