Launching the North Edinburgh Community Tattie, Beans and Peas Project

With Scran Academy and supported by Sowing Our Horizons

Come and join us for a delicious meal served up by one of our regular organisational partners. Scran will be bringing their food truck and some of the young people that they work with to serve us a meal in the community garden and allotment space as a way to launch our North Edinburgh Tattie, Beans and Peas project.

The Scran team will then stay on and help us get our first crops sown in the ground. You are also welcome to join us for that.

The Scran van will also welcome you all back later in the year once the crops have been harvested for a second, even more delicious, harvest meal.

As some of you know, last year, we had our Great Community Tattie Hoick, a community-owned patch planted and funded together with organisations in North Edinburgh. In March last year, over 200 people came together to help plant up a great big plot with a great big variety of tatties. The North Edinburgh Community Festival featured a tattie recipe cooking demo, and local community members shared tattie recipes. From July to October at the farm, people came and harvested the lumps of treasure in the soil and brought them to their communities for sharing, cooking and eating together. The harvesting ended with a fantastic community meal with four varieties of tatties served up by Scran Academy from their much-loved Scran Van.

Together with the R2 North Edinburgh Community Festival team, we decided the food celebration theme for this year should be beans and peas (because they are beautiful and so very, very good for you). So we are now prepping beds for growing piles of beans and peas to share in our community (with the community helping to sow, care for and harvest, share, cook and eat them). But because the tatties were so universally loved, we have decided to include a tattie patch too.

Come along to the meal to hear more about it, and launch this year’s Tattie, Beans and Peas project.

Are you an organisation or community group in North Edinburgh who would be interested to be part of the Tattie, Beans and Peas project?

Click here to read how your group could be involved with this year’s patch