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Agroforestry Open Day
May 18, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 3:30 pm
For our first Open Day of this year, we are delighted to be taking part in Agroforestry Open Weekend 2024
We will be open on Sat 18th May, from 10am-3.30pm
Feel free to just turn up! No need to book.
Day programme
10:30am-11.30am
Agroforestry Tour (meet at green portacabin near the Toby Carvery farm entrance)
11:45am-12:30pm
Market Garden tour (meet at Market Garden portacabin)
12:30-2:30pm
Pollinator Picnic with Natalie Taylor (drop-in to the Wildflower Hill by the wooden gazebo – see details below)
1:30- 2:30pm
Agroforestry tour (meet at green portacabin)
2:45-3:30pm
Market Garden tour (meet at Market Garden portacabin)
Plus
Our Community Orchard volunteers will be around to chat about fruit trees
Farm staff and volunteers will be at the green portacabin from 10am and throughout the day to welcome you, chat and signpost you to walks and other points of interest across the farm
Free refreshments
Wildflowers and Grass Roots Remedies stalls
About the Pollinator Picnic
led by artist Natalie Taylor, shortlisted for the Granton Gas Tower commission
Join Granton Gas Tower shortlisted artist Natalie Taylor in a free picnic at the farm. Find out more about insect-pollinated food (which importantly counts for one third of all of our food ingredients) and taste test! Drop-in between 12:30-2:30pm. Free. All food and herbal teas supplied for tasting. Food supplied till it runs out! A limited number of blankets will be available if it’s chilly. Drop-in to the Wildflower Hill, near the Toby Carvery farm gate entrance.
About Grass Roots Remedies & Wildflower Stalls
Grass Roots Remedies Co-op will be selling their carefully crafted herbal products to raise funds for the award winning Wester Hailes Community Herbal Clinic. They have a selection of teas, tincture blends, their famous Sair Nae Mair cream, and some gorgeous artworks from local artists. Come pay them a visit for a browse or a chat and a cup of tea, they will be around from 10am till 3ish. Cash and cards accepted.
Plus the wildflower volunteers will be available to talk about their plans at the farm, and selling pollinator-supporting wildflowers for any planting spaces of your own.
How to find us
The green portacabin is by the Community Allotments and Garden, at the back of the Toby Carvery car park*
The Market Garden is off the bend of the road at Cramond Road South
Click here for details and directions to the farm
We ask all visitors to walk, wheel, cycle or use public transport whenever possible, for the sake of all local creatures – human and otherwise!
*If you need to drive, please do not park in the Toby Carvery car park – this is not farm parking. Please find a place on the streets, with consideration to local residents. If you are disabled, please contact us to arrange to drive onto the farm.
Facilities/refreshments
There will be hot and cold drinks for visitors.
Gender neutral, wheelchair accessible* composting toilets available in the Community Garden and the Market Garden.
*Toilet at the Market Garden is on a compacted stone path. In the Community Garden it’s on rougher grassy ground. See also accessibility notes below.
Dogs
Dogs are welcome if they are kept on lead. Please do not allow your dog to approach other people or animals uninvited.
Accessibility
The agroforestry alleys are in the middle of the farm on rough grassy ground. The Market Garden tours are also on rough grassy and muddy ground, though less of a slope. The green portacabin is on a compacted stone path. Please contact us if you want more access information or to arrange to drive onto the farm
About the Agroforestry Open Weekend
Farmers across the UK, Ireland and beyond who are already practising agroforestry in some form, will be opening their gates to the public over 17-20 May weekend. As an annual, grassroots, farmer-led initiative this is an opportunity to share best (and worst!) practices, lessons from the field and discuss some of the challenges and opportunities of integrating trees into the farmed landscape first hand.
To find out more about the weekend, see: https://agroforestryopenweekend.org/