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Ferniehill is a neighbour hood in the South East Locality of Edinburgh. If you are local and would like to start community gardening, get in touch!

Pilton is a neighbourhood in North West locality of Edinburgh. There are a number of community projects in the area. See below for details.

Kirkliston is a neighbourhood in the North West of Edinburgh. There are a number of community growing sites in the area. See the projects section below to find out about them.

Stenhouse is a neighbourhood in the South West locality of Edinburgh. The area has a community garden run by Stenhouse Baptist Church. See the project below!

Prestonfield is a neighbourhood in the South East of Edinburgh. There is a community allotment site in the area. See the project page below. If you are local and would like to get growing, please get in touch.

Clermiston is a neighbourhood in North West Edinburgh. If you are local and would like to get growing, please get in touch.

Gracemount & Southhouse are neighbourhoods in the South East of Edinburgh. There is a project run by Transition Edinburgh South, in the walled garden of Gracemount Mansion. See the project below for more info. If you have further ideas for community growing in your area, please get in touch.

Liberton & The Inch are neighbourhoods in the South East of Edinburgh. If you would like to start community growing please get in touch.

Portobello is a neighbourhood on the North East coast of Edinburgh. Take a look at what Porty residents have been up to in this blog post. If you would like to grow on council housing land in Portobello, please get in touch.

Craigentinny is a neighbourhood in the North East of Edinburgh.  Craigentinny Community Garden is sited right next to the primary school, see Project page below.

Moredun and Craigour are neighbourhoods in the South East of Edinburgh.  There are two small community gardens at Craigour Court.  We hope to establish new community gardens in this area in the near future. If you would like to start community growing in the area, please get in touch.

Edible Estates are funded through the Edinburgh Growing Together Project to conduct a feasibility study of community growing on CEC housing land in Oxgangs. EE are working with residents, local organisations and CEC to find out whether there is appetite for community growing, where it could take place and what form it would take. See more information on the feasibility …

Edible Estates are working with residents and local organisations to conduct feasibility study into community growing in Dumbiedykes.

The development of community growing projects in Craigmillar and adjoining communities is led by our local area partner, the Community Alliance Trust, (CAT).  The process started in 2015 with the delivery of a community growing study by Re:Solution to investigate opportunities in Magdalene, Bingham and Niddrie Mill.  The first project on the ground was Magdalene neighbourhood garden in 2016, followed …

Between 2004 and 2008, we set up six community backgreens in Gorgie Dalry.  You can see more information about some of them below.  We went on to set up similar projects in Leith and into the council estates around Edinburgh. During lockdown we promoted the Gorgie Dalry Home Grown project from our Facebook Group. With future funding we would like …

Granton Community Gardeners have a long history of working in Wardieburn and have supported residents to establish many community growing sites. In 2012-13 Edible Estates were commissioned by Edinburgh Council to work with local residents in Wardieburn to regenerate four community backgreen spaces, two sites were renovated.

We started working in Lochend in 2011 with the development of Lochend Secret Garden, which has become a fantastic example of a ‘neighbourhood garden’.  We are currently running the Leith & Lochend Home Grown project which support households to grow at home during the lockdown.  Our hope is to develop further community greenspace projects in the coming years.

Edible Estates (EE) were asked by Edinburgh Council to work with the residents of Hutchison (an estate in the SW of Edinburgh,) to identify ways in which greenspaces in the neighbourhood could be improved with the support of the community and the Council. In 2019, EE ran a series of community consultations that highlighted the interests of the residents, e.g. …