Harvest Festival
Update! More programme and access details added
Celebrate harvest at the farm
Celebrate our first year of harvest at Lauriston Farm - join the North Edinburgh community on Saturday 10th September 2-5pm for our Harvest Festival.
This is the culmination of our first growing season at Lauriston Farm, and the final event in our Dandelion 2022 programme with North Edinburgh Arts. Our community, with the resident artists, musicians, writers, makers and performers, have been building up to this throughout July and August, and you'll get to see it all come together in a parade, puppets, live music, a Crankie Theatre Show and more.
All welcome and it's free, with no need to book - just come along.
You can also come along early for a tour of the Market Garden at 12:45pm - meet at the green portacabin (just inside the gate off the Toby Carvery car park) and one of our growers will meet you.
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This is the culmination of our first growing season at Lauriston Farm, and the final event in our Dandelion 2022 programme with North Edinburgh Arts. Our community, with the resident artists, musicians, writers, makers and performers, have been building up to this throughout July and August, and you'll get to see it all come together in a parade, puppets, live music, a Crankie Theatre Show and more.
All welcome and it's free, with no need to book - just come along.
You can also come along early for a tour of the Market Garden at 12:45pm - meet at the green portacabin (just inside the gate off the Toby Carvery car park) and one of our growers will meet you.
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Programme
timings are approximate
you can click the names in italics to go to the participant's website
UNEXPECTED GARDEN
~ 2pm-3.15pm
you can click the names in italics to go to the participant's website
UNEXPECTED GARDEN
~ 2pm-3.15pm
music
- Magnus Turpie & Dom Blaikie
- Granton Youth
workshops & activities
- KMT Freedom Teacher Ian Soloman-Kawal - the Hip Hop Gardener
- Craft workshops (drop in)
- Face painting
- Herbal walks with Grass Roots Remedies - 2.15pm and 2.45pm (sign up on the day)
- Community growing plot tours (drop in)
plus
- poetry readings from Alycia Pirmohamed & Tim Tim Cheng
- Rowanbank Walkabout performers
FARM PATHS
~ 3.15pm-4pm
parade
~ 3.15pm-4pm
parade
Giant birds! Dancing pollinators! Sun! Flags! Music! Parade with puppets, music and performances - featuring
- Ama-zing Harmonies Choir
- Salty Dolls
- Castle Chorus
- Project Esperanza
- and all members of the Parade Percussion crewe
UNEXPECTED GARDEN
~ 4pm-5pm
~ 4pm-5pm
performances
- Crankie Theatre Show (community-made)
- Omar Afif
- Bristol Branch
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Accessibility notes
surface: The Unexpected Garden is accessible via a compacted stone path. The festival tents will have level access. The paths through the farm (parade section) are rougher and uneven - the parade will not be fully wheelchair accessible.
toilets: There will be a wheelchair accessible toilet, and gender neutral toilets.
noise: The afternoon will be a mix of quieter and louder activities and performances, all outdoors or in tents.
We will have appointed accessibility stewards available on the day if you need assistance.
Please contact us with any questions - toni@lauristonfarm.org
toilets: There will be a wheelchair accessible toilet, and gender neutral toilets.
noise: The afternoon will be a mix of quieter and louder activities and performances, all outdoors or in tents.
We will have appointed accessibility stewards available on the day if you need assistance.
Please contact us with any questions - toni@lauristonfarm.org
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Volunteering
Could you help out? We would love to have volunteers to help us make it all go smoothly on the day. If you could be part of the crew, click here to register on Volunteer Signup