The community growing project in Broomhouse is a partnership of Space and Broomhouse Community Growing Association. The initiative got off the ground in 2017 with a community growing study delivered by Edible Estates (see below). Community Growing site and orchard have been established (see below), and the partners hope to develop further sites over the coming years.
Edible Estates are working with residents in the Northfield area of Edinburgh to establish a community growing project. A community association has been set up and the group members have been involved in planting wildflower areas and fruit bushes in the local area. For more information see Northfield Community Growing Associaiton’s Facebook page.
Community Backgreens Our work in Leith dates back to 2004-8 when Edinburgh Community Backgreens Association (ECBA) worked with tenement dwellers to set up, three ‘community backgreens’, Strawberry Field, Sunshine on Leith Gardens (SOL) and Foxfield (more info on the Leith projects below). Unfortunately, ECBA had to be wound down in 2012 due to lack of funding. Edible Estates grew out of ECBA, and …
Wester Hailes is a group seven council estates in the south west of Edinburgh. There are several community growing projects in the area, Wester Hailes Growing Communities have set up three neighbourhood gardens, in the Calders, Clovenstone and Murrayburn & Hailesland. WHALE Arts have a community garden, and The Health Agency have a community garden supporting mental health in the …