[ 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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Food'
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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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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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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Food Projects hit the High Street!
May 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Courses, Food
On Saturday 22nd May the Food team hit the high street to tell everyone about all PEDAL’s new food projects. We had a wee stall with bunting and knitted vegetables (thanks Jane for the knitted veg!). Anyone who stopped to talk to us and filled in our survey could take away their choice of vegetable […]
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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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The bees need you…
March 30th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Food, Orchards, gardening
photo: Jane Lewis
The bees need you and we need the bees! Bees are important pollinators and honey producers; their numbers are declining. As part of the orchard project PEDAL are considering keeping bee hives in the orchard. It would need a committed group with,or to train to get, the skills to set up and look after […]
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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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