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Granton Community Gardeners: Local people growing, cooking and eating food together.
Granton Community Gardeners: Local people growing, cooking and eating food together.
We are a community led charity based in North Edinburgh.
We create and cultivate community gardens, host community meals and events, support anyone in the area who wants to grow food, and think creatively about how best to make sure everyone in our area is fed well.
COMING SOON:
Wildflower Planting in East Pilton Park
Saturday 11th October. 10.30am -1pm
Free, family friendly activity.
Join us to add wildflower seeds and spring bulbs to the long grass patches of East Pilton Park (around the new tree plantings). As well as looking beautiful, we hope to improve the area for pollinators and also increase the number of invertebrates (insects and other wee bugs) for our local birds to eat. We are particularly hoping to help increase the food supply for our nearby swift colony and this project goes hand in hand with plans we have to give the swifts more good local nesting sites by adding swift boxes to buildings.
Amazingly, the council's ecologists have found that long grass areas can have as much as 90 times more life than short grass. Let’s add flowers to make them even better!
Please get in touch if you’re planning to come so we can bring a sensible number of tools: katie@grantoncommunitygardeners.org
(Also dress for the weather, and bear in mind that the closest public toilets are in Ainsley Park Leisure Centre).
You can also check out more about our 'Nature in Granton' project via new page on our website.
Nature in Granton: Focus Groups
Earn a £10 voucher!
New date:
Fri 17th October 10-11am details and sign up below
NATURE IN GRANTON: WE WANT YOUR VIEWS!
-more or less trees, foxes or gulls? Get that grass cut or let the wildflowers grow? Is nature helping with your mental health, or helping kids let off steam? Are there ways we could help nature thrive more, or should we tarmac the lot?!
Would you be up for chatting about nature in Granton for an hour for a £10 voucher (for Morrisons or Granton Garden Bakery -your choice)?
We'll be running our next focus group: Friday 17th October: 10-11am, at Granton Parish Church, 55 Boswall Parkway. (tea/coffee and biscuits provided).
Places limited: to sign up please email: tom@grantoncommunitygardeners.org
We've also launched this online survey asking for views, opinions and ideas about 'Nature in Granton', and would be grateful if anyone local could spend a few minutes filling it in
(as much or little as you like)
GARDENING CLUB:
EVERY WEDNESDAY 1-4pm.
Open to all, children with a responsible adult.
Dress for the weather.
Beginners and experts welcome.
Come and join in with a range of seasonal gardening tasks. Help look after the community garden, and grow food for the community. (everyone helping gets a share of the harvests).
You can also get a free hot community lunch around 2pm see below for details.
If you're new, ask for Lisa, Tom or Claire.
Garden Address is: 10 Wardieburn Road, EH5 1LY.
Wednesday Community Lunch (all welcome!) 1.30pm.
All at the community garden. Dress for the weather!
Bread and soup (or similar) provided, you're welcome to bring something extra to share.
Women's Outdoor Cooking Club 11.30-1.30
Meet other women, cook together, learn from eachother. (this group will move indoors during the Winter).
Community Meals with the SCRAN VAN at the garden.
Community Meals with the SCRAN VAN at the garden.
Anyone is welcome! It's good to eat together as a community. Free tasty hot food.
Next events:
Wednesday 22nd October 5pm
Wednesday 26th November 5pm
Dress for the weather!
FREE BIKE FIXING
Next Dr Bike sessions:
Weds 22nd October 2-4pm
Weds 26th November 2-4pm
Free safety checks by a bike mechanic (fixing where possible). Bring your bike to the garden..
..thanks to North Edinburgh Active Travel project from the R2 Network, and coordination from North Edinburgh Arts.
GRANTON GARDEN BAKERY
EVERY SATURDAY 10am-1pm
Freshly baked sourdough bread and treats.
Loaves are sold: ‘pay what you can afford’. Everyone should be able to eat real bread!
Pay what you can, support us if you can.
Come to the window at the back of Pilton Community Health Project (EH5 2PW), see also map:
(we're now also selling at Lauriston Farm on Thursdays 4.30-6pm -note this stall has fixed prices).
contact: info@grantoncommunitygardeners.org
Granton Community Gardeners is a SCIO, registered charity number: SC047087
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