The farm gate Market Stall is opening for the 2025 season on:

Thursday 3 July 4:30-6pm

We will be selling fresh-picked veg grown right here in the Market Garden at Lauriston Farm. We’re also looking forward to joining up with our stall partners again this year, and offering potted wildflower plants grown by Lauriston Wildflowers, mushrooms and tinctures from Rhyze Mushrooms, herbal remedies from Grass Roots Remedies, fresh bread and pastries from Granton Garden Bakery, free range eggs from Croft Organics, and open pollinated veg and herb seeds from Seeds of Scotland. Later in the season, Wakibia & Co will be selling African and Asian vegetables of cultural significance they grow here at the farm.

The stall offer will vary a wee bit from week-to-week with seasonal produce, and sometimes with the ups and downs of growing and making things as small indie organisations. But we’ll always have a selection of good things!

Come along for a chat and a browse, and get your fresh produce straight from the farm. We can take cash and card payments. Looking forward to seeing you (scroll down for directions and access notes if you haven’t been before)…

You are absolutely wonderful and can’t imagine my life without your food.
You help me to cook more healthy food. (Market Stall customer)

We love the market – thank you for bringing it to our local area (Market Stall customer)

If You Haven’t Been Before…

The Market Stall is held in the farmyard, in front of the ‘Welcome’ portacabin, through the gate at the back of the Toby Carvery car park (EH4 5EX).

Click here for directions to the farm

It is level access (no stairs, one incline at the gate) from the tarmac of the car park onto a rough compacted stone path, suitable for most wheelchairs and mobility scooters. The stall is outdoors on this path, in most weathers.

You get fresh, delicious, nutritious food & other goodies, with no pesticides or artificial fertilisers, grown and made by local folk. You also help support local projects that benefit the community. The stall partners are all ‘not-for-profit’ organisations – which means any ‘profit’ after our wages and costs goes back into our projects (not into the pockets of shareholders). Buying from us supports a local economy in north Edinburgh, keeping the money and the wider benefits here in the community.

The Stall Partners in Their Own Words

Granton Garden Bakery

Granton Garden Bakery aims to provide an affordable and accessible source of healthy bread. The bakery is not-for-profit; any proceeds will go to support the work of Granton Community Gardeners, the charity of which the Bakery is a part. All our bread is made with three priorities in mind: health, flavour and affordability. It has just 3 ingredients: water, salt, and heritage flour, grown locally and organically and stoneground by Scotland the Bread, organic flour from Mungoswells in East Lothian, or very occasionally flour from our own Granton-grown wheat. We ferment our bread slowly, making it more tasty and more digestible.

 

Grass Roots Remedies

Grass Roots Remedies are a workers’ cooperative whose central philosophy is that herbal medicine is the medicine of the people and should be accessible to everyone. We grow medicinal herbs within the market garden on the farm which provides their community herbal medicine clinics with locally grown, high quality medicines. We sell popular herbal blends that directly subsidise our herbal clinic as a model striving for accessible community herbalism. Buying directly from the farm rather than in our online shop means you can save on postage costs. We also welcome you to our roughly fortnightly herb garden volunteer sessions where the community comes together to tend to the herb garden to allow them to thrive. Contact soraya@grassrootsremedies.co.uk for more information.

You can also check out our courses here: https://grassrootsremedies.co.uk/learn-with-us/

& hear more about what we are all about & sign up to our newsletter here: https://grassrootsremedies.co.uk/

Connect with us on instagram & facebook if thats your bag too!

 

Lauriston Wildflowers

Lauriston Wildflowers started with three part-time volunteers, growing wildflower plants from seed to support more people to plant native wildflowers for the local ecosystem. We sell potted wildflower plants at the stall (and you can also order in bulk if you are looking after a larger space).
Drop by to browse the selection on the day, or pre-order for collection – you can click here to find out what’s available.

 

Rhyze Mushrooms

Rhyze Mushrooms is a not-for-profit worker’s coop focused on harnessing the decomposing power of mushrooms to grow food from local woody waste products.

At the stall, we will be offering our mushroom tinctures, and fresh Pearl Oyster Mushrooms. In the wild these grow on dead or dying deciduous trees, but we grow them on a mixture of local business byproducts made up of: 70% sawdust, 15% used coffee grounds and 15% coffee chaff collected from coffee roasters. Beautiful and meaty, the Oyster mushrooms make great additions to stir-fries, soups, pies or pasta dishes and are known to convert sworn mushroom haters to funghi enthusiasts. They are also incredibly healthy, with high levels of fibre, protein and important vitamins including D and B12.

 

Wakibia & Co

Wakibia & Co is a land partner at Lauriston Farm, growing African and Asian veg. We grow staples such as Palak (Bengal spinach), Chinese cabbage, Japanese carrots and squashes, as well as speciality crops like Shark-fin gourd, and vegetables of cultural significance such as Amaranth, pumpkin leaves, Ethiopian kale, Korean courgettes, Kimchi radishes, and Homs Kousa (Syrian courgette). We also grow herbs including Shiso (Perilla), Zanzibar basil, and Korean mint. We are in the early stages of developing the business, and experimenting with crops to find what grows well here. We hope to share the results of this year’s experiments at the stall later in the season.