Lauriston Farm

Drop-in Volunteering: Tuesday session
2023-08-01 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/London)
Hope you can join us on Tuesdays in the Community Garden and Allotments as we grow good food for the neighbourhood for the second year. No previous experience needed and no need to book – just come along when you can. There is a mix of jobs – you can choose the ones that suit you, have a blether with neighbours, get some sea air, and a share of the produce when things are ready to pick.
Come in via the Toby Carvery car park to the farm gate and look for the gate to the Community Allotments, just past the portacabins on the right hand side.
See you there!

Tree Care Volunteering
2023-09-19 10:30 - 12:30
Love the trees! – weeding, mulching and maybe even some baby oak planting….
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Earthen Building Workshop
2023-09-18 13:00 - 16:00
Continuing our earthen build workshop series – in the sessions on the 18th and 23rd, we’ll be aiming to finish some of the walls and incorporate some features. We’ll make the kitchen bright and colourful for future users by adding windows made from coloured bottles.
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Open Music Session
2023-09-14 19:00 - 20:30
Join our guest and local musicians for a relaxed evening of tunes and the best views.
Feel free to come along and play or just listen to the audible pleasures. No need to book – just turn up!
Also, if you come early, you can buy fresh veg from our veg stall as well (open 5pm-6:30pm).

Veg stall
2023-07-27 17:00 - 18:30
The veg stall will run weekly to the end of the harvest. You can drop-in, meet the growers, and pick up farm produce picked fresh that day. We can take cash and card payments.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
If you haven’t been before…
Come in via the Toby Carvery on Lauriston Farm Road (EH4 5EX) through the entrance at the back of the car park – the stall will be outside the containers at that farm entrance.
Lothian Buses 16, 27, 29, 37 & 41 all stop within 5 minutes of the farm.
Access notes: it is level access, with a tarmac surface in the Toby Carvery car park and a rougher compacted stone path once onto the farm.

Drop-in Volunteering: Thursday session
2023-08-03 13:00 - 15:00
Hope you can join us on Thursdays in the Community Garden and Allotments as we grow good food for the neighbourhood for the second year. No previous experience needed and no need to book – just come along when you can. There is a mix of jobs – you can choose the ones that suit you, have a blether with neighbours, get some sea air, and a share of the produce when things are ready to pick.
Come in via the Toby Carvery car park to the farm gate and look for the gate to the Community Allotments, just past the portacabins on the right hand side.
See you there!

Earthen Building Workshop
2023-09-09 10:00 - 14:30
Join us for one or both of these earthen building workshops, to help build our new community kitchen and to learn how to create your own earthen structures (lunch provided). Dress to get muddy!
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Tree Care Session
2023-08-27 14:00 - 16:00, 2023-08-16 11:30 - 13:30
Help out with looking after the trees and hedgerow across the farm. Weeding, watering, mulching and singing to them if you wish!
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Market Garden volunteering
2023-08-26 10:00 - 12:30
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!
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Our Seeds: Saving Seeds from Biennials
2023-08-19 14:00 - 16:00
Would you like to learn more about seed saving? This workshop is part of a series, and in it we will look at biennials (plants that take two years to complete their life cycle, from planting to flowering and seeds). At the farm 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.
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Our Seeds: Weaving Linen from Flax
2023-08-17 18:00 - 20:00
In May, we planted a small plot of flax at the farm. The plot includes a shorter variety for harvesting linseed for eating, and a taller variety for making linen.
It’s now time to harvest the linen flax. At this workshop, you can help with the harvesting, and learn more about how this crop gets processed and eventually woven into cloth. The Textiles team from Edinburgh College of Art will be bringing drop spindles, a spinning wheel and a loom so you can try your hand at weaving.
(Also, the veg stall will be open 5-6:30pm so if you come a bit early you can pick up some fresh veg from the Market Garden as well)
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Community Orchard Open Meeting
2023-08-16 17:00 - 18:30
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 5pm-6:30pm on Wednesday 16th August. Meet at the green portacabin just inside the farm gate entrance – we provide drinks and biscuits!

Earthen Build Groundworks Day
2023-08-15 10:00 - 16:00
Come along to the community garden at Lauriston Farm on the 15th August to find out how to do the groundwork and lay the foundations for an earthen building. In the garden we’ll be making an earthen build community kitchen but if you come to this workshop and the following related workshops you could learn how to build an earthen structure, from scratch, in your own space.
We’ll be running the workshop from 10am until 4pm and we’ll have soup for lunch. Come for the morning, the afternoon or all day.
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Our Seeds: Granton Wheat Harvest
2023-08-12 14:00 - 17:00
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!
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