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Hello from Lauriston Farm.

We're happy to say our re-designed website is now live, with new features including an events calendar, and much more information about the farm. Please test it out and let us know what you think. Also the veg stall is back! Open Thursdays 5-6:30pm - click here to get the details.

Coming up in September we'll be having our Harvest Celebration, but there's much more happening before that. In this newsletter:
  • Wildflower hill care session (9th August)
  • Willow care session (9th August)
  • Community Kitchen Groundworks Day (15th August)
  • Our Seeds events: Wheat Harvest (12th), Weaving Flax for Linen (17th), Seed Saving (19th August)
  • Tree care days (16th & 27th August)
  • Community Orchard open invitation (16th August)
  • Market Garden volunteering days (26th August)
  • Drop-in volunteering sessions
  • News from the Community Allotments - including the Community Kitchen
   
     

Wildflower Hill Care Session

Wednesday 9th August at 1:30pm

Helping hands needed to make our biodiversity bump - our wildflower wonder hill - look beautiful so everyone can enjoy sitting, relaxing and soaking up the amazing views. Please help weed, prune and plant:

   
     

Willow Care Session (re-arranged)

Wednesday 9th August at 4:30pm

This session is with Anna Liebmann - local willow grower and basket weaver. Please come along to help take care of the willow bed and the willow pollards - weeding, mulching and pruning. In exchange, you will be invited to attend a willow weaving workshop later in the month, for free!

   
     

Our Seeds: Granton Wheat Harvest

Saturday 12th August at 2pm

The community garden plot of wheat is ready for harvest. Join us in the allotments, with Granton Community Gardeners, to harvest the first wheat crop at Lauriston Farm for many years!

   
     

Community Kitchen - work begins!

Tuesday 15th August 10am-4pm

Since winning funding from the Edinburgh Community Climate Fund - voted by the public - we've been making plans for this new food sharing space.

Work starts on the 15th to prepare the ground - we'd love your help. This will be a brilliant session for anyone who wants to learn about how to build their own earthen building from scratch and for anyone who would like to contribute to our community kitchen.

     

Tree Care Days

Wednesday 16th August at 11:30am
Sunday 27th August at 2pm

Help out with looking after the trees and hedgerow across the farm. Weeding, watering, mulching and singing to them if you wish!

     

Community Orchard Open Meeting

Wednesday 16th August 5pm-6:30pm (drop-in)

Would you like to find out more about our recently planted community orchard and forthcoming fruit tree care workshops? Even maybe join our orchard group - the Orchardistas! Come along to our orchard blether anytime between 5-6:30pm on Wednesday 16th August. Meet at the green portacabin just inside the farm gate entrance - we provide drinks and biscuits! 


Contact toni@lauristonfarm.org with any questions.

     

Our Seeds: Weaving Linen From Flax

Thursday 17th August at 6pm

The flax is ready for harvest! Come along to help gather them in, and learn more about how it is processed and turned into linen. The Textiles team from Edinburgh College of Art will bring spindles, a spinning wheel and a loom so you can try your hand at weaving.

     

Our Seeds: Saving Seeds from Biennials

Saturday 19th August at 2pm

We have demo plots of several biennial crops, which were originally sown last year. These are now flowering now and putting out seed. This short workshop will talk about biennials and what you need to think about when you are saving seed from them.

   
     
   

Market Garden Volunteering

Saturday 26th August
10am-12:30pm and 1:30pm-4pm

Your chance to engage with the Market Garden, help grow food for the community, and learn some nature-friendly growing skills of your own. There will be jobs and skills to learn for all ages and abilities. Newcomers welcome! Register on Volunteer Signup to let us know you're coming:

   
     

Community Allotments news

With our new members, we now have a total of 28 allotments. It's been really great to see new groups getting started. For now, we are not taking any more applications for this year. Next year, we will add more groups to the site - look out for updates in this newsletter, or on our social media and website.

   
     

Drop-in Volunteering

   
     

Coming up in September...

The Harvest Celebration will be on Saturday 30th September. It won't be the same giant extravaganza as last year, because that came out of a whole season of workshops and preparations by extra farm hands, funded by Dandelion festival. This year will be more homespun, but still a perfect chance to get together as a community. More details to follow.

   
     

A quick correction from last month: the butterfly name labels were the wrong way round on the images. We can reassure you that the mistake was ours, not the person doing the butterfly identification!


Thank you for reading. Hope to see you at an event, volunteering session or wildlife spotting on the farm soon.

from all at Edinburgh Agroecology Co-op

   

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