Open day at Telferton Allotments
date for your diary, Sunday 29th August 2010.
Details to follow
Yearly Archives: 2010
PEDAL Growing & Gardening Fair — THIS SATURDAY!
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 you started or help you out of a rut, plus Experts Question Time at 2.30pm.
Tea & Cakes!
There will be stalls on composting, information about organic food, PEDAL food projects, PEDAL Energy Projects and others. If you’ve ever wondered what the Guerilla Gardeners are up to behind the town hall, they will be there to tell you all about it. Members of the Orchard Group will also be on hand to talk about the Donkeyfield community orchard on Brunstane Road, and tell you how you can get involved.
For those of you who are really addicted to veggies there will be a crafty corner where you can learn to knit your own vegetable accessories!
Then at 2:30 our panel of experts will take to the stage to answer your questions. Questions will be chosen from those posted on the question board thoughout the day.
Posted in Composting, events, Food, Orchards
Energy Fair in Town Hall 10th July
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, and opportunities to get involved in PEDAL projects.
There will also be information about PEDAL food projects, as well as composting and waste reduction tips.
Not forgetting a fantastic prize draw, with a first prize of an A rated energy efficient fridge freezer, plus other great energy-saving gadgets!
Hope to see you there.
Fire Under the Stars: Environmental songs, stories and humour with Eric Maddern
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 on the big picture and the step up we must make.
Eric Maddern is an Australian born storyteller, singer-songwriter and author
St. James’ Church hall, Rosefield Place
Sunday June 20th 7.30pm. Suggested donation: £5. Suitable for all aged 10 upwards.
After the show there will be a chance to find out how you can get involved in PEDAL’s latest food and energy projects.
Eric is a great performer and I’m sure it will be a great event!
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Posted in carbon reduction, Energy, events, Food
Donkey Field Community Orchard Midsummer Celebration
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.
Container Growing Course — Town Hall
The first PEDAL Container Growing course will begin on Saturday 5th of June at 2pm. Using a strip of cleared ash path at the back of Portobello Town Hall, Course Tutor Dave Roberts will instruct participants on the construction of timber raised beds and the principles of gardening in these and other containers. The course is aimed at those interested in growing more of their own fresh salads, greens and fruit but with limited space. If you’d like to sign up to the next course, contact Peter Upton at peter@pedal-porty.org.uk
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Posted in events
Food Projects hit the High Street!
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 and herb seedling, ranging from leeks, lettuces and kale to purple kalabash tomatoes. It was a beautiful day and the shade from the trees on the high street was very welcome, who would have thought it — summer in Scotland! A total of 55 Porty people told us what they would like to see on the Dig In Porty! training courses, and signed up for more information on Fruitful Porty, the Portobello Organic Market, Portobello Community Farm, the Edinburgh Garden Share Scheme and Solar Porty. If you missed out and would like to know more about what we are doing this year, keep your eye on the website (we will be adding pages on all the projects very soon) and look out for events and displays around Portobello. If you live in Portobello, there will also be a leaflet all about the first few food projects coming to your house via the Portobello Reporter any day now!
Or contact the Food Team
polly@pedal-porty.org.uk or peter@pedal-porty.org.uk
Water saving campaign
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 use and increasing efficiency of water heating, but huge amounts of energy energy is also used to treat water for consumption and for it’s treatment after use, so by reducing unnecessary water use we can cut carbon emissions too. The water saving campaign is being run by Energy Saving Scotland advice centre in partnership with PEDAL.
On Wednesday 2nd June there will be a stall in the Bath Street Scotmid store where Oliver Musgrave from Changeworks will be there to answer questions about water saving, and you can also find out about other current PEDAL projects.
Posted in carbon reduction, Energy, events
Energy group meeting
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.
Dig In Porty! Free courses on growing your own veg
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 growing Spring and Summer Greens will cover the theory and practice of digging, understanding your soil, compost, seed sowing and care of your plants.
If there is sufficient interest we’d like to run other courses on how to grow in raised beds & containers, and on growing potatoes.
Courses are being offered free, although there will be a small charge (£10) to cover the cost of seeds and some materials.
If you or someone you know is interested in these courses, or in being kept informed of other courses PEDAL may offer in the future, please contact Peter (peter@pedal-porty.org.uk) or Polly (polly@pedal-porty.org.uk).
We look forward to hearing from you!
Posted in Composting, Courses, events, Food, gardening