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Location Community Picnics take place at Murrayburn and Hailesland Community Garden in Wester Hailes every Tuesday from 1-3pm. Details Community Picnics offer the opportunity for people in the local community to meet, chat, explore the garden and try some delicious food prepared by our Community Chef Tona Soto using the garden’s produce. The event’s aim is to encourage more people …

Sessions Murrayburn and Hailesland Community Garden (Wester Hailes): Tuesdays and Thursdays – 9:15am-12:15pm Calders Greenshoots Community Garden (Wester Hailes):       Saturdays – 1-4pm Details Beginner Growers Sessions offer local people in Wester Hailes the chance to get involved in one of their community gardens, particularly those who are unsure how to get started growing their own produce. Supported …

Edible Estates is currently recruiting Natural Play Workers and Community Engagement Workers.

The Magdalene Edible Estate project was launched in April 2015.

The Scottish Governments People & Communities Fund have approved £113,000 funding for the Wester Hailes project.  This will support the continued development of the project for 2015/16.

The Scottish Governments Climate Challenge Fund have approved £119,000 funding for Magdalene, part of the Craigmillar Edible Estates project.  This will support the construction of an Estate Growing Hub and healthy eating programme during 2015/16.

The Clovenstone Estate Growing Hub was launched in September 2014 with a community fete.  This was the second Hub to be developed in Wester Hailes.  The Hub provides growing spaces for 35 residents.

The Calders Estate Growing Hub was launched in May 2014.  The hub provides growing spaces or 50 residents.

The Wardieburn Community Backgreen project resulted in the construction of one site which created 11 new growing spaces, unfortunately we were unable to move on to complete the second site.

After a long wait.  Work has finally started on site with the first of two community food growing projects in Wardieburn (Edinburgh).  The project is being delivered by Re:Solution, in partnership with Premier 1, (Edinburgh Council’s term contractor for landscaping).

We’re really pleased to announce that the Wester Hailes Edible Estate project has received the funding go-ahead from the Climate Challenge Fund.  They have approved £290,000 to support the development of community food growing projects in two estates (Calders, and Murrayburn/Hailesland/Dumbryden), in the South West of Edinburgh.  The project will start in April 2013, and continue to March 2015.  The …

The Scottish Governments Climate Challenge Fund have approved £290,000 funding for the Wester Hailes Edible Estates project.  This will support the construction of Estate Growing Hubs at two estates and healthy eating programme during 2013/15.

We’ve pleased to announce that the reports for the South West Edible Estates Study have now been published.  They can be viewed here – Dumbryden, Murrayburn & Hailesland, Saughton Mains Park and the Calders.

We’re pleased to report that we’ve moved into a new office at the Albion Studios. Unit 6b, 78 Albion Road, Edinburgh. Its a large open plan office which we are sharing with a couple of other folk including Look Look which provide retro photo booths for events.

We’re pleased to report that funding has been approved for the delivery of a scoping study which will investigate the set up of Edible Estate projects in three neighbourhoods in South East Edinburgh – Niddrie Mill, Magdalene and Bingham.  Read more.

We received confirmation at the end of August that the first of the Forth Community Food Growing Sites has been funded.   The project will result in the renovation of a courtyard greenspace into a ring of growing plots with a community recreation space within. The project will be delivered by a combination of contractor build and community self-build.  We …

Here’s some photos from the Summer Fete at Sunshine On Leith Gardens.  It was a fun day and thankfully blessed with good weather.  SOL Gardens has now been run by the growers association for several years and despite some continuing difficulties with access issues etc. is now well established.  For news and to contact the group see SOL Garden website.

I visited the Woodlands Community Garden in Glasgow last week and was blown away with how well designed it is! http://www.woodlandscommunitygarden.org.uk/ Apologies for low res photos.  Just getting my head around using Photosynth,

We are working with Wester Hailes Health Agency to investigate the opportunities to establish community food growing and other community greenspace initiatives in three neighbourhoods in South West Edinburgh.  This is really exciting for us to work with local residents and stakeholders to develop whole estate strategies. See more here.