Local young people from Wester Hailes recently helped transform an empty shipping container into a fabulous space for the community to gather. The shipping container, situated in Westside Plaza Civic Square, now offers free bike hires, free access to cargo bikes, courtesy of the Cargo Bike Movement, tool hires via The Edinburgh Tool Library and South West Edinburgh 20 Minute …
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Raised Growing Beds & Polytunnel: Craigmillar (Seaview & White House)
Our Growing Youth High School pupils in Craigmillar have been busy rebuilding raised beds at Seaview Children’s Centre. Growing Youth Workshop Leader, Paul, has also been keeping the seven pupils busy building an arbour for the White House garden, as well as up-cycling a wheelie bin as a wormery. Their next task will be to take on the construction of …
Raised Growing Beds & Seating: Muirhouse Neighbourhood Garden
Throughout March 2024, five of our GY pupils got busy building vegetable beds for the local community at the newly opened Muirhouse Neighbourhood Garden. Their Workshop Leader, Tom, has also helped the group build a bench for locals to sit and enjoy the garden.
Community Shed: Hutchison Neighbourhood Garden
Our Growing Youth High School pupils have been involved in an exciting shed build for the local Hutchison community. The group has been out in all weathers working on the project since August 2023, but their hard work has finally paid off as the shed was officially completed in March 2024. The local community and Growing Youth team were able …
Garden Shed: Citadel Community Garden
Our third LAH project recently began in Leith’s Citadel Community Garden. At this site, one of our LAH sessions is exclusively a women’s group with the view to provide women who are over 50 and out of work with a space to improve their confidence and skills in joinery. The group has been tasked with building an usual triangular shaped …
Tool Shed: Calders Community Garden
In Calders, LAH participants have been getting involved in a tool shed build, which will help to clear space in the community garden’s existing shed so that it can be used as a social space for the community to come together. The build involved checking the foundations were level, helping teach others to correctly use a drill and saw, and fitting …
Community Hub and Garden Shed: Muirhouse Neighbourhood Garden
At Muirhouse Neighbourhood Garden, the LAH team have taken on the challenging task of converting four disused garages into a community garden shed and hub. In total, twelve participants have so far contributed to the build, many of whom have brought lots of relevant experience to the project. Construction began in October 2023 with Workshop Leader Seal, and the team …
Dumbiedykes
As part of the Edinburgh Growing Together Project, Edible Estates are working with residents and local organisations to conduct a feasibility study into community growing in Dumbiedykes. We have surveyed the area for suitable growing sites. We have gathered together residents who are interested in getting a project started in their area. There was lots of enthusiasm for growing, including …
Broomhouse School Farm
Edible Estates established a school farm at Broomhouse Primary, in South West Edinburgh. More information to come!
Oxgangs
In 2023, Edible Estates have been conducting a feasibility study on behalf of Edinburgh City Council, to investigate options for taking a community gardening approach to greenspace on council housing land. At the outset, the goal was to identify potential sites for a community garden. After a mapping exercise and several consultations with residents, we have not yet identified a …
Muirhouse Neighbourhood Garden
We are working alongside residents and local organisation, Community Renewal to develop a growing project in Muirhouse. Surveys and participative design workshops in 2021 revealed there was a desire for a neighbourhood garden in Muirhouse. We identified a suitable site, adjacent to Fidra Court, with derelict garages suitable for renovating into tools storage and a micro-community hub. The garden will …
Broomhouse Orchard
In 2023 Broomhouse Growers gained permission to develop an area of disused council land in to a community orchard. The land was previously over grown and full of litter. The group cleared the site over multiple sessions. They have now planted native fruit trees and bushes. They plan to establish wildflower areas, rain water collection and a communal space for …
Hutchison Neighbourhood Garden
Through the community and greenspace surveys we carried out in 2019, we identified a preferred site for the development of a Neighbourhood Garden for Hutchison. There are several potential sites in the estate, but this site is particularly well suited due to its size, location, solar aspect, and being over seen by a ring of tenements. The site is an …
Muirhouse Community Greenspace Study
Community Renewal, an organisation supporting community development in Muirhouse, explored opportunities for the development of community greenspace projects in Muirhouse. The impetus for this came from a group of local residents who were keen to become involved in their local greenspace. Community Renewal commissioned Re:Solution to carry out an initial community Greenspace study to survey local greenspace and suggest potential …
Wheatfield Terrace Community Backgreen
This is the site of one of the original Community Backgreens set up in Gorgie Dalry in the early noughties. We understand there is still a community shed at the site though we have not had any updates for some years now. If you live at this site, please let us know how it is doing.
Murieston Community Backgreen
This is the site of one of the original Community Backgreens set up in Gorgie Dalry in the early noughties. We understand there is still a community shed at the site though we have not had any updates for some years now. If you live at this site, please let us know how it is doing.
Broomhouse Community Growing Study
In 2017, The Broomhouse Centre & Enterprises (now Space) commissioned Re:Solution to deliver a Broomhouse Community Growing Study. The study investigated potential community greenspace/growing projects, and measured demand within the local community for these ideas. The study recommended the development of a Neighbourhood Garden on the grounds of Broomhouse Primary School, and also a Broomhouse Home Farm project which would grow …
Cherrytree Community Backgreen
Cherrytree is one of the community greenspaces established by the Edinburgh Community Backgreens Association in the Dalry area of Edinburgh. Between 2003-4 disused and overgrown area in the centre of a square of tenement backgreens was regenerated as a community greenspace project to form a hub for community activities. The group was provided with a shared tool shed and tool …
Sighthill School Farm
The School Farm project at Sighthill Primary began in August 2019, but was forced to halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. During school closures the project adapted to provide online activities and accompanying videos for the pupils and their families, centred around growing from the home. To complement these activities, pupils and their families could collect pre-prepared activity …
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