Edinburgh based Community interest Company, Edible Estates, is launching a new community growing project in Leith and invites everyone to join in to grow food and community there.
Edible Estates is building on its ‘Leith & Lochend Home Grown’ initiative over the past six months to launch a new community growing and green space project in Leith. In partnership with the Leith Walk Police Box, Out of the Blue, Foundation Scotland, Port of Leith Housing Association and Action Earth the ‘Lets Grow a Garden Here’ initiative aims to encourage community growing projects led by local people this autumn and winter.
The project is supported by Ocean Outdoor who own the big screen on Leith Walk and will use it to promote the project. They expect that it will be local people who want to get involved. the advertisement is live from 1st Oct- 11th Oct
Patrick Dunne, who is co-ordinating the Lets Grow a Garden Here project, wants to see as many people as possible sign up, join in and develop a new grassroots, local, urban food growing initiative including everything from edible streets, doorstep planters to skill sharing and community meals over the next year.
He said: “We are really excited to have a chance to develop an emergency Covid response into a new and exciting opportunity for community growing in Leith. We hope to be a part of the local food networks and community activity in the winter. Leith has so many great ideas and resourceful and creative people and is full of interesting projects. We are really proud to be a part of it.”
If you are keen to grow your community, learn new skills, improve your local environment and have fun, contact patrick@edibleestates.co.uk to get involved.
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