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Donkeyfield Community Orchard Apple Day and Hallowe’en Party

Posted on October 23, 2011 | Leave a comment

apple day poster 2011Sat 29th October 2-4pm

All wel­come!

  • Apple crush­ing and press­ing – bring apples and bottles to take home some juice
  • Apple dook­ing and other games
  • Bring home bak­ing to share
  • Fancy dress

If you have any apples that we could col­lect to juice please con­tact Diana as soon as possible.

Many thanks – we hope to see you there.

Donkeyfield Community Orchard is at Brunstane Road South, Gilberstoun, just oppos­ite Brunstane station.

Poster for Apple Day 2011 to down­load and print out.

 

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Lovely video from Bath of turning an ex-flowerbed into a veggie patch

Posted on July 1, 2011 | 1 Comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QdJ-vYaWug

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An Introduction to Organic Vegetable Gardening

Posted on April 17, 2011 | Leave a comment

Bridgend Growing Communities

Interested in grow­ing your own fruit and vegetables? Not sure where to begin? This intro­duct­ory course at the Bridgend Allotments will give you a ground­ing in all you need to know to start grow­ing your own food. Continue read­ing →

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Community Growing Spaces Meeting

Posted on April 8, 2011 | Leave a comment

PEDAL has been offered a num­ber of bits of land to use as com­munity food grow­ing spaces. We now need to work out how we are going to use them – is there a group want­ing to take on each of the spaces? Would people like a train­ing course (we would need to charge for this as we don’t have any more fund­ing) to kick start the process?

Would you like to get involved in devel­op­ing a com­munity farm?

If you think this sounds excit­ing and would like to get involved in any way then please come to a meet­ing on Tuesday 26th April 7.30 – 9.30 at Portobello Community Centre.  If you’re not able to make the meet­ing but are inter­ested in get­ting involved please let me know jane@gn.apc.org

Look for­ward to see­ing you there.

Jane

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Free orchard management course

Posted on March 2, 2011 | Leave a comment

Fruitful Skills for a Fruitful Scotland

Interested in set­ting up or run­ning a com­munity or school orch­ard?
Want to know more about caring for trees in an estab­lished orchard?

Edinburgh and Lothians Greenspace Trust is offer­ing a free com­munity orch­ards man­age­ment course on Saturday 26th March, 10am — 4pm

Aimed at people already run­ning or think­ing about set­ting up a com­munity orch­ard, for more details see ELGT’s web­site

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Scottish Orchards Fife Networking events

Posted on February 28, 2011 | Leave a comment

Please see inform­a­tion about the Scottish Orchards Fife/ East Coast Gathering

They are look­ing to roll out this train­ing and net­work­ing to other parts of Scotland so even if you cant get to this one, they are open to ideas.

Scottish Orchards Fife_East Coast Gathering[1]

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Planting Week at Greendykes Allotments

Posted on February 25, 2011 | Leave a comment

Greendykes Organic Allotments are hold­ing a Planting Week between 4-11th March. To kick start things they are look­ing for volun­teers to help plant 200 nat­ive trees on 4th March between 10am — 2pm.

Tools, gloves and refresh­ments will be provided. Bring spades or extra plants if you have them!

For fur­ther inform­a­tion please con­tact Brian Shields on 0131 6613504 (wk) or 0131 6605351 (hm) or brian.shields@edinburgh.gov.uk

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Grow your own vegetables course

Posted on February 21, 2011 | Leave a comment

Are you inter­ested in grow­ing your own veget­ables but don’t know where to start?  Join Damhead Nursery where veget­able expert Jim Williams from the National Vegetable Society will be intro­du­cing you to the delights of grow­ing your own food, how to estab­lish a kit­chen garden and pick up simple tips to get you star­ted, whether you have a large over­grown plot, small patch or a win­dow box.  He will cover top­ics such as seed sow­ing, get­ting the best out of your green­house, pests/weed con­trol, com­post­ing, crop rota­tion and soil pre­par­a­tion.  After his talk par­ti­cipants will ven­ture into the nurs­ery for a hands-on prac­tical exercise.

When Friday 11 March 2011
Where Damhead Nursery
Time 1:30pm — 4:00pm
Cost £25.00 (includ­ing tea/coffee & cake)
Bring Warm clothes for hands on prac­tical outside/poly tunnel
Booking There are a lim­ited num­ber of spaces.  To book your place either call

Damhead Nursery on 0131 445 4698 or email michelles@damheadnursery.co.uk

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Potato Day

Posted on January 24, 2011 | Leave a comment

Hi everyone,Please find attached a pro­mo­tional flyer for Bridgend’s annual Potato Day on Sunday February 20th. Please note that this event is being held at the Bridgend Allotments on Old Dalkeith Road and NOT at Inch House as in pre­vi­ous years. Parking is lim­ited, so if you’re com­ing by car, please try to park elsewhere.

If you are com­ing to buy seed pota­toes, we would appre­ci­ate it if you could bring your own bags! A list of seed vari­et­ies avail­able is also attached.

Hope to see you on the 20th.

Tattie Day 2011

Seed Tattie List 2011

Rob Ford

Project Officer

Bridgend Allotments Community Health Project

Tel. 07789 650878

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Mushroom Growing Course

Posted on January 18, 2011 | Leave a comment

Learn to cul­tiv­ate your own mush­rooms, such as oyster mush­rooms on logs (as well as other environments/ sub­strates). 19th February 10am-1pm at the por­to­bello com­munity cen­ter.  The course will be led by mush­room expert Dr Neville Kilkenny. Please con­tact us for fur­ther details.

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