The 4th Power of Food Festival is back on 16 and 17 June to celebrate community food growing.
As part of the programme there will be entertainment for all ages across 23 community gardens in the city. There is yoga, bioblitzing, bug hunting and music along with food and drink and it is all free.
Sustrans will offer guided bike rides round the gardens taking part in the festival. These are free but you have to register a place on the festival website and bring your own bike.
Highlights we have found include going to see the New Caledonian Woodlands at Inch Park Cottage Inch Park Old Dalkeith Road where there will be bannocks on offer.
In Leith on South Sloan Street there is a garden in a backgreen where there are 39 raised beds used mainly to grow vegetables.
Duddingston Kirk Glebe on Old Church Lane (enter by the large black gate at number 5) is probably the last piece of glebe land in use in Scotland. This is the piece of land given to the parish minister to farm.
Clovenstone Community Garden is open from 12 noon on Sunday and they are ready to show off what they have achieved in the last four years. There are individual raised beds, communal beds and a she with rainwater storage tanks. During the afternoon there will be a lip balm making session!
You can join the festival for £1 per individual or organisation.
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