Greenhead Moss Community Nature Park

Greenhead Moss Community Nature Park

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Welcome to the Greenhead Moss website.

Greenhead Moss Community Trust is a community led partnership that manages Greenhead Moss Community Nature Park in Wishaw, Lanarkshire, southern Scotland.

The Community Nature Park covers over 110 hectares and was once a landfill and opencast site with remnants of lowland raised bog, woodland and grassland habitats. After extensive reclamation activities, we now manage the site for biodiversity, access, health & education programmes on behalf of the local community.

Our work on site includes providing volunteering and training opportunities, environmental education programmes, regular health walks and events for all ages and abilities.

News update:

Greenhead Moss AGM welcomes local historian.
The AGM of the Greenhead Moss Community Trust will be held on Thursday 28th May, 7pm in the old Cambusnethan Parish church halls, top of Greenhead Road. Guest speaker will be Stephen Mullen, a local historian who has been researching the bog body found on the moss.
All members and interested parties welcome. Refreshments will be served.

Join us now at the Earthship site!

Come and join us for a different kind of volunteer day. We'll need lots of help to fill the tyres that will make up our earthship's tyre wall. It's a great job for getting a sense of achievement and an easy skill to learn. In the future, you can be standing there admiring the finished building and knowing that you helped build it.

Volunteer days are available for adults, families, companies and groups giving everyone an opportunity to be part of something remarkable and special.

To register as a volunteer, fill in the free membership form, tick the earthship box and send it in to us. We'll add you to our update list. You can also check our earthship page on this site for dates we are on site.

See our 'support us' page for the downloadable membership from.

New trees will give long term benefits to people and wildlife.
Our volunteers have been busy planting up two new areas of trees.
We received funding from the Tree Council and also from Central Scotland Forest Trust for new plantings. We have planted a mixture of fruit bearing trees. This includes large species of apples, plums and cherries including a 'Cambusnethan Pippin', a specialist tree of the Clyde Valley Orchards. Once they bear fruit, we are happy for people to pick them as long as they leave some for nature.
We have also received 50 native parkland species trees from Amey Roads. These were planted by our volunteers along with staff from Amey Roads. They include large parkland species such as oak, ash, elm, yew, scots pine and horse chestnut.

New parkland trees for site

Amey Roads join Greenhead volunteers in planting 50 large native trees including oak, ash and elm.

Perchy Pond Local Nature Reserve, part of our Community Nature Park

Our featured sponsor:

Taggarts Land Rover of Motherwell sponsor our Greenhead Moss Defender Land Rover and we couldn't do a lot of our work without such a workhorse as the Defender. It's robust, reliable and gets us around the site with confidence and ease.

Taggarts Land Rover, Motherwell dealership will be happy to assist you in your search for a new Land Rover car, used Land Rover car, car servicing, car parts, and car finance. They have all new Rover car models available and a selection of used Land Rovers.

Tell them we sent you!

Contact them via their website or telephone 01698 266 445

Link to Taggarts website (opens in new window)

Our Taggarts Landy in the 'serengeti' within the park.