We now have a site, times and prices set for the market! The first one is on Saturday 4th September 10am to 2pm in Brighton Park, Brighton Place. It is also Organic Fortnight and Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight, so more good reasons to come along and buy loads of lovely Scottish Organic produce. Have a look at the updated webpage for more info. Details of stall holders and entertainments will be posted as they are confirmed.
Category Archives: Food
The first ever Portobello Organic Market!
Summer Pruning course
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 (6.30pm‑8.30pm) of Thursday 19th of August is for those who want to learn how to get the most from their fruit trees etc by judicious pruning. Contact Peter Upton or Polly Cooke if you’d like to register for this one-off evening course. There’ll be a booking fee of £10 to reserve your place, though there’ll be no further cost.
Bread Making course
If you are interested in learning how to bake your own bread, please contact Polly Cooke or Peter Upton at PEDAL. There will be a small charge for the course to cover materials and hire of premises, but we aim to keep this to a minimum.
Portobello Community Farm — Invitation to tender
We have just sent out our invitation to tender for the community farm feasibility study!
To find out more go to the Invitation to Tender page.
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Posted in Food, Land Reform
Telferton Allotment Open Day, 29th August
Open day at Telferton Allotments
date for your diary, Sunday 29th August 2010.
Details to follow
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
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
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
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
Midsummer Orchard Party; Orchard Work Days; Orchard Group Meeting
MIDSUMMER’S PARTY — SATURDAY 19 JUNE — at the Orchard, at a time to be confirmed but likely to be early evening onwards.
The next orchard work day will take place on Saturday 12th June, from 10 am — 2 pm. Everyone is welcome!
The next Orchard Group meeting will take place on Wednesday 17th June at 7.30 pm in the Dalriada.
Subsequent orchard work days are as follows:
Saturday 12 June from 10 am — 2 pm
Saturday 17 July from 10 am — 2 pm
Saturday 28 August from 10 am — 2 pm
Saturday 25 September from 10 am — 2 pm
Saturday 30 October from 10 am — 2 pm — HALLOWE’EN CELEBRATION
Saturday 20 November from 10 am — 2 pm
Saturday 18 December from 10 am — 2 pm — WINTER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION
Hope to see at some of these events. Please make sure to bring something to eat and drink and wear appropriate clothing, especially now the nettles have sprung up again. Even better, bring some thick gloves and a bag to collect some for soup!
What to bring (if you can):
- Gardening tools (fork, spade, shears, etc) if you have them
- Gardening gloves
- Wear work clothes with long sleeves and legs (there are thistles and nettles!)