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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 · 1 Comment · 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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Energy group meeting

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

[ July 1, 2010; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Please note: The Energy group meet­ing on Thursday 10th June at 7.30pm is now post­poned until 1st July. The meet­ing is not in the PEDAL office but please con­tact PEDAL for more details.

We wel­come new ideas for devel­op­ing our cur­rent energy plans and ideas for the future.

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Dig In Porty! Free courses on growing your own veg

May 17th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Composting, Courses, Food, events, gardening

[ May 29, 2010; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] Would you be inter­ested in learn­ing to grow more of your own fruit and veg?

We hope to offer a short course over 4 Saturdays, begin­ning on the 29th of May at Telferton Allotments. At the moment we are only able to offer the course to six people on a first-come, first-served basis. This course on […]

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Food group meeting

March 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Food, events

[ April 21, 2010; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] The next food group meet­ing will be on Wednesday 21 April, 7:30pm at the Dalriada. Hope you can make it!

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Brief cartoon Video explaining Cap and Trade

November 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Food, events

[ November 26, 2009; 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm. ] The Story of Cap and Trade
Although they sound sim­i­lar, Cap and Trade and Cap and Share are entirely dif­fer­ent approaches to cli­mate change:

CAP and SHARE (www.capandshare.org) is a sys­tem which can be used to CAP (to limit and dra­mat­i­cally reduce the car­bon com­ing into the coun­try in line with the sci­ence), and to SHARE (to dis­trib­ute the […]

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Next orchard workday

November 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Food, Orchards, events

[ November 22, 2009; 11:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] The next work­day at the Donkey Field Community Orchard will be on Sunday November 29th, 11am — 3pm.  The orch­ard is really start­ing to take shape now — BTCV have made a won­der­ful path, which, when fin­ished, will give wheel­chair access to the site.  Come along on Nov 29th and have a look!

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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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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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