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Happy Green Cooking!

Posted on February 7, 2011 | Leave a comment

Last chance to book a place on Out of the Blue’s Happy Green Cookery Course which starts tomorrow.

The Happy Green Cookery Course Flyer

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Just Food: Learning from New York City’s experience

Posted on January 21, 2011 | Leave a comment

Friday February 11 Quaker Meeting House Edinburgh 5.30 – 8.30

Just Food con­nects local farms with the city to get fresh, sea­sonal and sus­tain­ably grown food to people on all dif­fer­ent incomes

This event is for every­one inter­ested in strength­en­ing Edinburgh’s local food sys­tem and mak­ing afford­able fresh local food avail­able to all.

5.30 Soup and bread

6.30 Talk by Abby Youngblood from Just Food, fol­lowed by discussion

Cost £2 at the door.  Advance book­ing essential

To book or for fur­ther inform­a­tion con­tact pete [at] whit­muiror­gan­ics [dot] co [dot] uk 01968 661908

This event has been sponsored jointly by:

Transition Edinburgh South

Nourish

Edinburgh Local Food Network

Transition Edinburgh University

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Next Portobello Organic Market  —  5th February

Posted on January 5, 2011 | Leave a comment

Portobello Organic Market fea­tures the best of artisan and organic food, drink and arts & crafts sourced from the south east of Scotland. The mar­ket is held on the first Saturday of each month (except January, when there will be no mar­ket). With an open plan lay­out and up to 25 stalls selling a wide range of pro­duce, what bet ter way to start your month?

Venue: Brighton Park, Brighton Place, Portobello, Edinburgh
Opening Times: 10am to 2pm, Saturday 5th February and the first Saturday of every month thereafter.

You can view more inform a tion about the Organic Market and how to book a stall via these links.

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FREE Community Gardener Training

Posted on December 21, 2010 | Leave a comment

In February and March 2011, The Edinburgh Community Backgreens Association (ECBA) will be run­ning a FREE Community Gardener train­ing pro­gramme, cov­er­ing all the skills you need to become a fully fledged com­munity gardener in your neighbourhood.

During the course of the train­ing, we will estab­lish a com­munity gardener net­work so the par­ti­cipants can sup­port each other’s pro­jects after the train­ing has finished.

This train­ing is for any­one who is involved in com­munity garden­ing pro­jects, or any­one who would like to start or get involved with a pro­ject.  The par­ti­cip­at­ory approach to train­ing means that we will draw on par­ti­cipants’ var­ied know­ledge and exper­i­ences to learn.

Course Content
some of the key themes we will cover are:

* Models for Community Gardening within a Tenemental Context
* How to recruit group mem­bers and pub­li­cise Community Backgreen pro­jects
* Design Issues and cre­at­ing a devel­op­ment plan for your site
* Carrying out your back­green plans: run­ning work­shops etc
* Running a Community Backgreen Group
* Establishing a sup­port net­work for the newly trained Community Gardeners

Dates and Location
The Community Gardener train­ing will run on four full Saturdays from 10am-5pm, (with reg­u­lar refresh­ment breaks). The train­ing will be held at the ECBA offices: 5 Rose Street  The dates of the work­shops will be:

Saturday 12th February
Saturday 26th February
Saturday 12th March
Saturday 26th March

Registration and Attendance
You can attend just some or all of the work­shops, as long as you let ECBA know in advance which ones you plan to attend.  To register for the course:
email courses [at] ecba [dot] org [dot] uk, or call 0131 248 2698

For more inform­a­tion see the ECBA web­site — www.ecba.org.uk

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St Philip’s campaign and pledge

Posted on September 22, 2010 | Leave a comment

Sunday 26th September saw the launch of a cam­paign by St Philips church to sup­port the con­greg­a­tion and church hall users in redu­cing their car­bon emis­sions by 10% within a year.

At har­vest sunday mass, there was a present­a­tion on cli­mate change and things we can all do to reduce our car­bon foot­print. Over the fol­low­ing year, there will be oppor­tun­it­ies for people to make pledges, receive more inform­a­tion on how to ful­fill these, and report back on the changes they’ve made.

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Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens National Networking Day

Posted on September 7, 2010 | Leave a comment

The Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens are hav­ing their National Networking Event on Friday, October 8th 2010 at Battleby, near Perth.

Workshops include New Allotments; a look at dif­fer­ent allot­ments mod­els, Livestock on Community Gardens, Social Return on Investment, Selling Produce at Farmers Markets, Orchards, Wildlife Gardening in Winter, Community Gardening and the 2011 Elections, Risk Management and more!

There will be a chance to meet fun­ders, find out about bee­keep­ing, Care Farming, Planning Aid Scotland and hear case stud­ies from other pro­jects. It’s a great oppor­tun­ity to net­work, meet like-minded people and share ideas.

For fur­ther inform­a­tion please con­tact naomi [at] farmgarden [dot] org [dot] uk Tel: 0131 623 7058 Deadline for applic­a­tions is Friday 16th September 2010.

You can down load book­ing forms at  http://www.farmgarden.org.uk/farms-gardens/your-region/scotland/506-news-a-events

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The first ever Portobello Organic Market!

Posted on August 10, 2010 | 8 Comments

basket of veg by Rosemary RatcliffWe now have a site, times and prices set for the mar­ket! The first one is on Saturday 4th September 10am to 2pm in Brighton Park, Brighton Place.  It is also Organic Fortnight and Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight, so more good reas­ons to come along and buy loads of lovely Scottish Organic pro­duce.  Have a look at the updated webpage for more info.  Details of stall hold­ers and enter­tain­ments will be pos­ted as they are confirmed.

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Next Food Group Meeting

Posted on August 3, 2010 | Leave a comment

The Next Meeting of the Food Group will be at 7pm in the Espy on the 30th August 2010.  Everyone Welcome!

This is an off­shoot of the old PEDAL food group which has now become the ‘orch­ard’ group.

The Food Group is some­where to share ideas about any­thing to do with grow­ing and eat­ing more loc­ally pro­duced organic pro­duce in Portobello.  The Group also sup­port the PEDAL Food Workers with some of the CCF fun­ded food pro­jects: Portobello Organic Market, Fruitful Porty, The Edinburgh Garden Share Scheme, map­ping local land that may be used for food grow­ing, and a feas­ib­il­ity study into some sort of com­munity sup­por­ted agri­cul­ture pro­ject (Portobello Community Farm).

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Summer Pruning course

Posted on July 19, 2010 | 1 Comment

Many folk would like to gain con­fid­ence in prun­ing fruit trees and fruit bushes. The Summer Pruning course to be run at the Community Orchard off Brunstane Road South on the even­ing (6.30pm-8.30pm) of Thursday 19th of August is for those who want to learn how to get the most from their fruit trees etc by judi­cious prun­ing. Contact Peter Upton or Polly Cooke if you’d like to register for this one-off even­ing course. There’ll be a book­ing fee of £10 to reserve your place, though there’ll be no fur­ther cost.

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Bread Making course

Posted on July 19, 2010 | 2 Comments

If you are inter­ested in learn­ing how to bake your own bread, please con­tact Polly Cooke or Peter Upton at PEDAL. There will be a small charge for the course to cover mater­i­als and hire of premises, but we aim to keep this to a minimum.

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