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Summer Pruning course

July 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Food, Orchards, events, gardening

[ August 19, 2010; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] 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 of Thursday 19th of August is for those who want to learn how to get the most from their fruit trees etc by […]

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Bread Making course

July 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Courses, Food, events

[ September 18, 2010; ] 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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Water Saving event 28th July

July 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized, events

[ July 28, 2010; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] 7-8pm in Portobello Town Hall

FREE water sav­ing tools to use in your own home

FREE impar­tial advice on sav­ing energy water and money through water efficiency

The oppor­tun­ity to WIN a water effi­ciency makeover for your house

The aver­age house­hold spends around 30% of their gas bill on heat­ing water, which could be as much as £200 a […]

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Telferton Allotment Open Day, 29th August

July 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Food, events, gardening

[ August 29, 2010; ] Open day at Telferton Allotments

date for your diary, Sunday 29th August 2010.

Details to follow

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PEDAL Growing & Gardening Fair, 7th August

July 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Composting, Food, Orchards, events

[ August 7, 2010; 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] Saturday 7th August 2010

Portobello Town Hall

11am to 4pm

Experts Question Time at 2.30pm

As part of PEDAL’s Food pro­jects for 2010, we are hav­ing a Growing & Gardening Fair at the Town Hall.  Come along to this FREE event and find out more about grow­ing your own fruit & veget­ables, com­post­ing and more!

Stalls and advice to get […]

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Energy Fair in Town Hall 10th July

June 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Energy, events

[ July 10, 2010; 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] Please come along to our Energy fair in Portobello Town Hall. Between 11am and 4pm there will be altern­at­ive energy demos includ­ing bicycle powered music and smoothie mak­ing. You will be able to get energy advice, inform­a­tion on renew­able energy for your home, and advice on insu­la­tion grants.

Find out about about PEDAL’s  renew­able energy plans, […]

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Fire Under the Stars: Environmental songs, stories and humour with Eric Maddern

June 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Energy, Food, carbon reduction, events

[ June 20, 2010; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ]
We became human sit­ting round a fire under the stars. We are now burn­ing up the planet. We are a mir­acle in the Universe yet we are under­min­ing our sur­vival and the sur­vival of the Garden of Eden that is our lovely, lonely, liv­ing Planet Earth.

This show is a bold, inspir­ing, hope­ful and heart-warming take […]

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Donkey Field Community Orchard Midsummer Celebration

June 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Orchards, events

[ June 19, 2010; 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Saturday 19 June from 6 pm.

Everyone is wel­come to come to the party; please just bring yourselves, food to share and some­thing to drink, wash­able cup, plate etc, plus a musical instru­ment if you play.  Feel free to bring a bar­be­cue if you like but not dis­pos­able ones please.

Brunstane Road South/Gilberstoun, just oppos­ite Brunstane Station.

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Container Growing Course — Town Hall

May 31st, 2010 · No Comments · events

[ June 5, 2010; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Container grow­ing course for food­ies with lim­ited space!

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Water saving campaign

May 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Energy, carbon reduction, events

[ June 2, 2010; 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm. ] By the first week of June every­one in Portobello should be receiv­ing a Home Water check form through their doors. By send­ing back com­pleted forms, indi­vidu­als will get a report on ways they can reduce water use. This can save energy and money, and cut car­bon emis­sions. Money can be saved by redu­cing hot water […]

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