About Us
Edible Estates is a partnership of several organisations which work together to promote community food growing projects. We work across a variety of communities, but our approach is particularly well suited to social housing estates. We use food growing as a tool for urban regeneration, promoting individual health and well-being, and community cohesion.
Featured project
Lets Grow A Garden Here
Lets Grow A Garden Here is a campaign of projects and events organised by Leith Community Growers in partnership with Edible Estates. These projects follow on from the Leith & Lochend Home Grown project which supported folk to grow at home during t …
Project models
In working with communities over the years, we have developed several project templates which communities can implement in their neighbourhood, or use as a starting point to develop their own project.
Neighbourhood Gardens
We establish community gardens in Council estates which provide a place and activity for people to come together, providing a springboard for other projects in the neighbourhood.
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We are supporting communities to design and build their own parks, making the most of best practice in Natural Play design.
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Community Growers is a community growing model developed to grow fruit and vegetables across multiple small sites. The food is shared at community meals and/or channeled community benefit such as local food banks.
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The School Farm initiative provide a great experience for the teachers and pupils, getting them outdoors into the school grounds to grow food, build things, work together and learn.
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