Category Archives: Food

Love New Year, Love Your Food!

Posted on January 5, 2011 | Comments Off on Love New Year, Love Your Food!

Porty res­id­ents are invited to join in a fant­ast­ic five weeks of food heav­en, with PEDAL and Kitchen Canny.

Love New Year, Love Your Food! is a series of even­ing ses­sions where we will be look­ing at things like:

  • The best things for you to grow at home
  • Tasty menus for each month of the year
  • Whether organ­ic really is bet ter for you and the planet
  • How you can ban­ish over pack aging from your shopping

Dates, Times and Booking

The ses­sions are run each Tuesday even­ing from 7pm to 8pm on:

11th, 18th and 25th Jan & 1st and 8th Feb

At The Espy on Portobello Promenade.

Each week there will be a short talk from an expert and you will be giv­en Kitchen Canny chal­lenges to take home, which will help save your house hold up to £430 a year (this is the value of the aver­age amount of food thrown away be each house­hold in Scotland every year).

The cost of the five week course is £10.

To book your place please con­tact graham@pedal-porty.org.uk or call 0131 258 4483.

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Next Portobello Organic Market — 5th February

Posted on January 5, 2011 | Comments Off on Next Portobello Organic Market — 5th February

Portobello Organic Market fea­tures the best of artis­an and organ­ic food, drink and arts & crafts sourced from the south east of Scotland. The mar­ket is held on the first Saturday of each month (except January, when there will be no mar­ket). With an open plan lay­out and up to 25 stalls selling a wide range of pro­duce, what bet ter way to start your month?

Venue: Brighton Park, Brighton Place, Portobello, Edinburgh
Opening Times: 10am to 2pm, Saturday 5th February and the first Saturday of every month thereafter.

You can view more inform a tion about the Organic Market and how to book a stall via these links.

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Next Portobello Organic Market — 5th March

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

Portobello Organic Market fea­tures the best of artis­an and organ­ic food, drink and arts & crafts sourced from the south east of Scotland. The mar­ket is held on the first Saturday of each month. With an open plan lay­out and up to 25 stalls selling a wide range of pro­duce, what bet ter way to start your month?

Venue: Brighton Park, Brighton Place, Portobello, Edinburgh
Opening Times: 10am to 2pm, Saturday 5th March and the first Saturday of every month thereafter.

You can view more inform a tion about the Organic Market and how to book a stall via these links.

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Local Food Whatever the weather!

Posted on December 7, 2010 | Comments Off on Local Food Whatever the weather!

Portobello Organic Market in the snowThe December Portobello Organic Market was a sunny snowy suc­cess des­pite the win­tery weath­er and most oth­er events being can­celled.  We brought fresh bread, veg, meat, fish, cakes and gifts to Portobello when everything else seemed to be run­ning out.

The Christmas Hamper Treasure Hunt went down a storm as well , with great com­pet­i­tion devel­op­ing to find the hid­den golden apple.  The lucky win­ner of the hamper was Andrew Paton, so con­grat­u­la­tions to him and thank you so much to all the stall­hold­ers who con­trib­uted produce.

Have a very merry christ­mas and remem­ber the first Portobello Organic Market of 2011 is on February 5th 10am — 2pm.

(Apologies for any con­fu­sion caused by January date men­tioned in Edinburgh Outlook)

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Order your low-cost fruit trees now!

Posted on September 18, 2010 | Comments Off on Order your low-cost fruit trees now!

The Fruitful Porty scheme lets you order apple, pear, plum and cherry trees at sub­sid­ised prices through PEDAL. Download the fruit tree list and order now (or order online).

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Lourish ~ Spare produce that you want to swap?

Posted on September 14, 2010 | Comments Off on Lourish ~ Spare produce that you want to swap?

Have you got a million marrows or too many tomatoes?

Swap your sur­plus for some­thing home grown & healthy near you in just a couple of quick clicks.

Lourish has been launched to help you share what you grow!

Lourish lets you swap your sur­plus fruit and veg with people grow­ing their own near you.

Sign up & share your own!

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First Portobello Organic Market does a roaring trade!

Posted on September 9, 2010 | Comments Off on First Portobello Organic Market does a roaring trade!

The first Portobello Organic Market took place on a very sunny Saturday 4th September. Over a peri­od of four hours, more than one thou­sand people des­cen­ded on Brighton Park to buy lovely loc­al and organ­ic food, drink and crafts. Initial feed­back from sev­er­al loc­al traders sug­gests that the event had a very pos­it­ive effect on High Street busi­nesses too.

The mar­ket was offi­cially opened with a short speech and rib­bon cut­ting by Councillor Tom Buchanan, Convenor of Economic Development at City of Edinburgh Council.

The mar­ket will con­tin­ue to run on the first Saturday of every month, from 10am to 2pm in Brighton Park. We are look­ing to ensure future events reflect the feed­back we have received — in par­tic­u­lar we aim to change the lay­out of stalls to reduce crowding, and to have a wider range of pro­duce for sale as well as stalls selling teas/coffees and hot and cold snacks.

You can view more inform­a­tion about the Organic Market and how to book a stall via these links.

https://pedal-porty.org.uk/food/portobello-organic-market/pom-stallholders/

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Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens National Networking Day

Posted on September 7, 2010 | Comments Off on Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens National Networking Day

The Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens are hav­ing their National Networking Event on Friday, October 8th 2010 at Battleby, near Perth.

Workshops include New Allotments; a look at dif­fer­ent allot­ments mod­els, Livestock on Community Gardens, Social Return on Investment, Selling Produce at Farmers Markets, Orchards, Wildlife Gardening in Winter, Community Gardening and the 2011 Elections, Risk Management and more!

There will be a chance to meet fun­ders, find out about bee­keep­ing, Care Farming, Planning Aid Scotland and hear case stud­ies from oth­er pro­jects. It’s a great oppor­tun­ity to net­work, meet like-minded people and share ideas.

For fur­ther inform­a­tion please con­tact naomi@farmgarden.org.uk Tel: 0131 623 7058 Deadline for applic­a­tions is Friday 16th September 2010.

You can down load book­ing forms at  http://www.farmgarden.org.uk/farms-gardens/your-region/scotland/506-news-a-events

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Places on Bread Making Course

Posted on September 7, 2010 | Comments Off on Places on Bread Making Course

Do you want to learn the secrets of fer­ment­a­tion using yeast and sour­dough, how to shape, prove and bake a vari­ety of breads – and much more?

There are still places avail­able on our AMAZING whole day bread mak­ing course with Bread Matters’ Andrew Whitley on the 18th September.

Go to our Dig In Porty! pages to find out what oth­er courses are com­ing up.

If you would like to take part please phone or email Polly on 0131 258 4483 or polly@pedal-porty.org.uk

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Volunteering opportunities with PEDAL

Posted on August 11, 2010 | Comments Off on Volunteering opportunities with PEDAL

We have a great pro­gram of events hap­pen­ing over the next few months, includ­ing three Organic mar­kets, a car-free day and an allot­ment open day. If you can spare an hour or two to help out on a stall, set up stalls and dis­plays, or as a stew­ard at any of these events then please let us know. To find out more, vis­it our volun­teer­ing page to see what oppor­tun­it­ies are avail­able, or ring PEDAL on 0131 258 4483.

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