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Portobello Organic Market — March 5th

Posted on March 2, 2011 | Comments Off on Portobello Organic Market — March 5th

The Next Portobello Organic Market is this Saturday!

March 5th 10am to 2pm

Brighton Park

Come along and get all your lovely loc­al, organ­ic pro­duce for the week, and maybe sneak in a yummy cup­cake or two!  We also have some new stalls, includ­ing veg­gie snacks and upcycled cloth­ing (that is lovely new cloth­ing made with recycled materials).

Stallholders for March

The sur­vey we did last month showed that at least two thirds of you walked or cycled to the mar­ket, so keep up the good work!  If you drove, maybe you could walk instead and burn off the cup­cake cal­or­ies on the way home?

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Grow your own vegetables course

Posted on February 21, 2011 | Comments Off on Grow your own vegetables course

Are you inter­ested in grow­ing your own veget­ables but don’t know where to start?  Join Damhead Nursery where veget­able expert Jim Williams from the National Vegetable Society will be intro­du­cing you to the delights of grow­ing your own food, how to estab­lish a kit­chen garden and pick up simple tips to get you star­ted, wheth­er you have a large over­grown plot, small patch or a win­dow box.  He will cov­er top­ics such as seed sow­ing, get­ting the best out of your green­house, pests/weed con­trol, com­post­ing, crop rota­tion and soil pre­par­a­tion.  After his talk par­ti­cipants will ven­ture into the nurs­ery for a hands-on prac­tic­al exercise.

When Friday 11 March 2011
Where Damhead Nursery
Time 1:30pm — 4:00pm
Cost £25.00 (includ­ing tea/coffee & cake)
Bring Warm clothes for hands on prac­tic­al outside/poly tunnel
Booking There are a lim­ited num­ber of spaces.  To book your place either call

Damhead Nursery on 0131 445 4698 or email michelles@damheadnursery.co.uk

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Nourish Scotland Annual Conference 2011

Posted on February 16, 2011 | Comments Off on Nourish Scotland Annual Conference 2011

NOURISH ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2011 

11TH AND 12TH MARCH 

PEARCE INSTITUTE GLASGOW

Nourish is a net­work of people and groups inter­ested in loc­al food in Scotland, who, to quote their Declaration of Dunbar “..are work­ing towards a sus­tain­able Scotland in which, in every region we pro­duce more of what we eat and eat more of what we pro­duce.”  To join just register at Nourish.

The Nourish Scotland Annual Conference 2011 will bring togeth­er parties inter­ested in Local Food from all over the UK for Wonderful Workshops, Spectacular Speakers, Luscious Local Food and a Cracking Ceilidh!  Tickets are on sale from http://nourishconference2011.eventbrite.com/

HUSTINGS EVENT

On Saturday, Lesley Riddoch will be chair­ing the debate at our Hustings event, with polit­ic­al rep­res­ent­at­ives from a cross sec­tion of parties tak­ing your ques­tions on the issues sur­round­ing Local Food and Land Use.

WORKSHOPS INCLUDING (tbc):

Wild Food with Ian Edwards of the Scottish Wild Harvests Association

Farmer’s Markets with Howard Wilkinson of Ayrshire Food Network

What To Do when the Funding runs out – expert advice on Social Enterprise and Income Generation

CAP Reform with David Barnes of the Scottish Government

Nourish: The Way Forward – Plenary Session to vote on pri­or­it­ies for Nourish Strategic Plan and options for Regionalisation

Opportunities in Procurement & Government Tenders includ­ing the Commonwealth Games

Getting Community Growing Projects Going with Urban Roots

Food Waste with Zero Waste Scotland

Land Use Strategy with Jo Hunt and John Ferguson of Nourish

Inspirational Visit to LEGUP Urban Growing Project in Govan

Land and Legal Issues for Community Growing with Landshare

Orchards with pan­el­list of 4 experts tak­ing your questions

Veg Box Schemes – with Caspar Lampkin and Fiona Ross

Food Security with Mike Small of Fife Diet

Haggis Making with Chef Didier of Whitmuir Organics

Andrew Whitley from Bread Matters, founder of the Village Bakery and Real Bread Campaign

Fisheries, Slow Food and many more…

CEILIDH

We’ll be dan­cing the night away in our Friday night Ceilidh with music from Sarah Northcott and the Little Biggar Band. We’ll be provid­ing a bar too for your choice of refreshment…

FOOD

Delicious sea­son­al meals using loc­al pro­duce (organ­ic wherever pos­sible) will be sup­plied by Hyndberry. Lunch and Dinner on Friday and Lunch on Saturday are included in the price of Weekend Tickets.

FREE CHILDCARE AND CHILD TICKETS!

This year we have Free Childcare cour­tesy of GERA’s Mobile Play Team who’ll be run­ning food related work­shops and arts and crafts activ­it­ies for the young­er delegates.

LOCATION

The con­fer­ence will be held at the Pearce Institute in Govan, Glasgow. The Pearce is a fant­ast­ic ven­ue, with plenty of room for net­work­ing and break­out ses­sions. It’s right across the street from the Subway, is wheel­chair access­ible and has a Hearing Induction Loop. More here: http://www.pearceinstitute.org.uk/

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Happy Green Cooking!

Posted on February 7, 2011 | Comments Off on Happy Green Cooking!

Last chance to book a place on Out of the Blue’s Happy Green Cookery Course which starts tomorrow.

The Happy Green Cookery Course Flyer

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Orchard Work Day  —  Saturday 29 January

Posted on January 25, 2011 | Comments Off on Orchard Work Day  —  Saturday 29 January
Dear All
Happy New Year!
This is to let you know that the next orch­ard work day will take place this Saturday, 29 January from 10 am — 2 pm.

We are expect­ing a large con­sign­ment of trees next month so we need to pre­pare the ground and dig holes for them, which will make our task next month much faster and easier.
Hope you can come along.  Don’t for­get to bring some­thing to eat and drink and wear appro­pri­ate clothing.
For your diary — the dates for the rest of the year are as follows:
Saturday 18 February — this is pro­vi­sion­al at the moment, depend­ing on when the trees are delivered.  We’ll let you know near­er the time.
Saturday 26th February from 10 am — 2 pm
Saturday 26th March from 10 am — 2 pm- Spring Equinox
Saturday 30th April from 10 am — 2 pm 
Saturday 28th May from 10 am — 2 pm
Saturday 25th June from 10 am — 2 pm Summer Solstice Celebration
Saturday 30th July from 10 am — 2 pm
Saturday 27th August from 10 am — 2 pm
Saturday 24th September from 10 am — 2 pm Autumn Equinox
Saturday 29th October from 10 am — 2 pm
Saturday 26th November from 10 am — 2 pm
Saturday 17th December from 10 am — 2 pm Winter Solstice Celebration

It would be really help­ful if you could sign up to a few ses­sions in advance (if you are able) so that we can have a reas­on­able idea of how many people might be at each ses­sion and plan accordingly. 

Look for­ward to see­ing you soon

Diana

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Potato Day

Posted on January 24, 2011 | Comments Off on Potato Day

Hi everyone,Please find attached a pro­mo­tion­al fly­er for Bridgend’s annu­al Potato Day on Sunday February 20th. Please note that this event is being held at the Bridgend Allotments on Old Dalkeith Road and NOT at Inch House as in pre­vi­ous years. Parking is lim­ited, so if you’re com­ing by car, please try to park elsewhere.

If you are com­ing to buy seed pota­toes, we would appre­ci­ate it if you could bring your own bags! A list of seed vari­et­ies avail­able is also attached.

Hope to see you on the 20th.

Tattie Day 2011

Seed Tattie List 2011

Rob Ford

Project Officer

Bridgend Allotments Community Health Project

Tel. 07789 650878

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Just Food: Learning from New York City’s experience

Posted on January 21, 2011 | Comments Off on Just Food: Learning from New York City’s experience

Friday February 11 Quaker Meeting House Edinburgh 5.30 – 8.30

Just Food con­nects loc­al farms with the city to get fresh, sea­son­al and sus­tain­ably grown food to people on all dif­fer­ent incomes

This event is for every­one inter­ested in strength­en­ing Edinburgh’s loc­al food sys­tem and mak­ing afford­able fresh loc­al food avail­able to all.

5.30 Soup and bread

6.30 Talk by Abby Youngblood from Just Food, fol­lowed by discussion

Cost £2 at the door.  Advance book­ing essential

To book or for fur­ther inform­a­tion con­tact pete@whitmuirorganics.co.uk 01968 661908

This event has been sponsored jointly by:

Transition Edinburgh South

Nourish

Edinburgh Local Food Network

Transition Edinburgh University

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Mushroom Growing Course

Posted on January 18, 2011 | Comments Off on Mushroom Growing Course

Learn to cul­tiv­ate your own mush­rooms, such as oyster mush­rooms on logs (as well as oth­er environments/ sub­strates). 19th February 10am-1pm at the por­to­bello com­munity cen­ter.  The course will be led by mush­room expert Dr Neville Kilkenny. Please con­tact us for fur­ther details.

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Local Food Links Meeting

Posted on January 12, 2011 | Comments Off on Local Food Links Meeting

Local Food Links

Tuesday 25th January from 7 – 9pm

Portobello Community Centre

At the last Local Food Links get togeth­er we talked about what we wanted to to achieve in a years time…now we want to get things moving!

We want to bring togeth­er as many people as pos­sible who have been involved in PEDAL’s food pro­jects,  and people who are inter­ested in loc­al food but haven’t yet man­aged to get involved.  Folk will be able to choose the top­ic they’re most keen on and work with oth­ers to plan what can be done over the next year.

There are exist­ing pro­jects like Fruitful Porty or the Portobello Organic Market, which has been incred­ibly suc­cess­ful, but is only fun­ded until the end of March, so it needs volun­teers if it is to con­tin­ue being the great com­munity event it is.  As well as ideas for new pro­jects rais­ing loc­al food aware­ness or set­ting up a com­munity shop.

So, if you are inter­ested in the future of loc­al food in Portobello, come along!

We hope to see you there!

For more inform­a­tion on the first loc­al food links meet­ing see our earli­er post­ing and food page

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2 day Introduction to Permaculture

Posted on January 11, 2011 | Comments Off on 2 day Introduction to Permaculture

22/23 January 2011 

Colinton Community Compost,

Edinburgh.

EH13 0PQ

Sliding scale price from £45-£75 — but please don’t let money be the reas­on you don’t attend. 

For more inform­a­tion and a book­ing form, con­tact James Chapman — 

07790 265883 or 01337 842277 james@tree-wise-men.com


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