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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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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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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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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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