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Entries from August 23rd, 2009

Great Bike Parade, market and comedy on Car Free Day 09!

August 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Transport, events

[ September 20, 2009; ] On Sunday 20th Sept we held our annual Bike Parade start­ing from the Prom at the bot­tom of Kings Rd at 1.30. We had double the num­ber of bikes as last year — it seemed like we had lit­er­ally hun­dreds of dressed up bikes — and this year we had with us the amaz­ing arm­chair bike!

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Dingle the donkey

August 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Food, Orchards

At last, here we have it! A genu­ine photo of Dingle, the don­key who used to live in the field which is now the com­munity orch­ard. This must have been taken around 1968. Also in the photo is my brother Duncan (the one in the fore­ground, ha, ha).
Sorry Dingle isn’t actu­ally facing the cam­era  —  he cer­tainly wasn’t […]

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Porty Community Growing Space

August 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Composting, Orchards, events, gardening

[ August 9, 2009; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. August 16, 2009; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. August 30, 2009; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. September 5, 2009; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. September 13, 2009; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. September 19, 2009; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] [cap­tion id=“attachment_736” align=“alignright” width=“231” caption=“Porty Community Garden Poster (click to down­load lar­ger ver­sion for printing)”][/caption]

Edinburgh Community Gardening Activists & PEDAL have teamed up to turn a large neg­lected garden area at the back of Porty Town Hall into a com­munity grow­ing space — Food ‘n’ Flowers! If you would like the oppor­tun­ity to have […]

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