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Porty Community Growing Space

Posted on August 11, 2009 | Comments Off on Porty Community Growing Space
Porty Community Garden Poster (click to download larger version for printing)

Porty Community Garden Poster (click to down­load lar­ger ver­sion for printing)

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 a bash at grow­ing a few veg­gies, or even just help out, please get in touch for more details!

If you have any old/unused garden­ing tools you’d like to donate, please let us know!

Work days are held most week­ends (usu­ally a Sunday)—details are on our blog­s­ite but the next few are:

  • Sun 30th August, 2 – 5pm
  • Sat 5th Sept, 2 – 5pm
  • Sun 13th Sept, 2 – 5pm
  • Sat 19th Sept, 2 – 5pm

You’ll need to wear sens­ible old cloth­ing and garden­ing gloves. Bring any tools (spades, forks, lop­pers etc) if you have them!

Become a Rebel Tomato for some garden­ing fun and a bit of hard work!

Contact: Lucy on (0131) 669 7201 or E‑mail: Edinburghguerrillagardeners@live.co.uk

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Orchard Midsummer celebration

Posted on June 12, 2009 | Comments Off on Orchard Midsummer celebration

midsummer_orchard

Over 80 folk came to the Midsummer cel­eb­ra­tion at the orch­ard site (Brunstane Road South, just oppos­ite Brunstane Station) on Saturday 20 June.

People brought food and drink and good humour, and some brought music­al instru­ments (thank you Jicca, Misha and Ian!).

We had lovely weath­er and the chil­dren have cre­ated their own climb­ing and leap­ing place, leav­ing the rest of us free to chat and have a relax­ing time.

(Click on the image to down­load the poster.)

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Tea Party photos…!

Posted on April 14, 2009 | Comments Off on Tea Party photos…!
Vision of Portobello in 2029

Vision of Portobello in 2029

Well over a hun­dred folk joined in the “Porty Party” in the Town Hall on the 21st March. Almost 50 joined up as new mem­bers of PEDAL (we need as many mem­bers as pos­sible, so if you’re not a mem­ber please join us. People came for the tea and cakes, for face paint­ing and the “Asian kite work­shop” recyc­ling plastic bags into fab­ulous Asian kites! … and people read and com­men­ted on the emer­ging vis­ion for a sus­tain­able and vibrant Portobello: a vis­ion in the form of plans for energy, food, trans­port, edu­ca­tion … be part of it!

We’ve put some pho­tos of the PEDAL Tea Party up on Flickr, so take a look and see if you can spot yourself!

PEDAL Tea Party

PEDAL Tea Party

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Tea Party photos…!

Posted on April 14, 2009 | Comments Off on Tea Party photos…!
Vision of Portobello in 2029

Vision of Portobello in 2029

Well over a hun­dred folk joined in the “Porty Party” in the Town Hall on the 21st March. Almost 50 joined up as new mem­bers of PEDAL (we need as many mem­bers as pos­sible, so if you’re not a mem­ber please join us. People came for the tea and cakes, for face paint­ing and the “Asian kite work­shop” recyc­ling plastic bags into fab­ulous Asian kites! … and people read and com­men­ted on the emer­ging vis­ion for a sus­tain­able and vibrant Portobello: a vis­ion in the form of plans for energy, food, trans­port, edu­ca­tion … be part of it!

We’ve put some pho­tos of the PEDAL Tea Party up on Flickr, so take a look and see if you can spot yourself!

PEDAL Tea Party

PEDAL Tea Party

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