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Agroforestry Open Day

May 18 @ 10:00 am - 3:30 pm

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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 products for sale

 

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.

 

How to find us

The green portacabin is by the Community 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/

Details

Date:
May 18
Time:
10:00 am - 3:30 pm

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