Hi Foxfielders, just to say that October's Gardeners Blog is on the Dig for Victory site just now and to also invite you to a  'garden pests and diseases' workshop at SOL garden this thursday between 6 and 7 pm. The session fee is a mere £3 and it would be great to catch up with you all. Hope the site is going well ,Best Wishes Joanna

Hi Folks,  No interested respondees for tonight's Harvest workshop which needs 5 confirmed people to be viable so workshop will be re-scheduled. I'm re-thinking the advertising of the workshops so that I can reach many more participants. I'll get back to everyone with  more dates of workshops and where they'll be advertised. I'll also host and be self-employed at the sites so that no-one from Foxfield  or any site needs to be present and doesn't have to feel responsible for attending at any… Continue

As you probably know, ECBA has lost funding and has requested for us to take responsibility to keep this Foxfield Ning site going. So, if you're not a member yet, but have enjoyed reading the blog posts and would like to keep it going, please contact Tom Gardner via his inbox, and he will give you some more information on how to contribute.

Thanks,

Jill Richardson

Hi Folks. A big thank you to all of you who came out into Foxfield and made Friday’s meeting a success. Following a brief discussion of ECBA and its various aspects, a quick talk about Foxfield, a brief discussion of the AGM - with a few welcome interjections from Greg Robertson regarding the future website set up, the tool depot on Dalmeny Street and some background on the forest garden amongst other things, we were able to get down to business and do some real forward planning for our…

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Thanks again to everyone from our backgreen who helped out on Sunday afternoon to take down most of our monster laurel hedge. It was only 4 years ago it was trimmed to about 4 ft, but since then it had grown to a 12-15 ft high, 6ft deep monster. Six of us worked to cut it down to almost ground level, dismember all the branches and separate the useful firewood from the leafy stuff. We then formed a chain-gang to stack all the debris back along the fence, with the wood on top where it can be…

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Hi to everyone at Foxfield! Great to meet you all on Thursday, 7th at the meeting at your Backgeen. The Backgreen looks great, a really welcoming space. Thankyou to Jill for the delicious homebaking, I skipped home with that chocolate brownie! Just to remind everyone that there is a workshop at SOL, Sunshine On Leith Gardens in Dickson Street on Thursday, 14th July. We're looking at Green Manure Crops and running through garden tool identification and usage, The class is 7 til 9 pm, and I'm… Continue

Community Backgreen Meeting

Thursday, 7^th July, 6:30 pm

Foxfield Garden*

(Bring a mug of tea to go with fresh home baking to be provided!)

 

Hi there,

Tom and Jill attended the Edinburgh Community Backgreen Association’s (ECBA) AGM last weekend, and we would be happy to share with you what ECBA is (for those of you who don’t know already), what we…

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Hello Foxfield Folk,

I just wanted to give you an update on the changes that will be taking place at ECBA.  

Changes at ECBA

This week will be my last week as Community Officer, and Greig has already switched over to a voluntary role at the organisation, so there will no longer be an ECBA staff team, at least in the short to medium term future. This change is partly due to the fact that we did not receive a Climate…

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Hello Foxfielders,

At ECBA we're gearing up for the Spring and Summer ahead, and have been confirming our courses programme for the next few months. Tom suggested that we rotate our workshops around more sites this year, so that different backgreens get the benefits of a raised profile etc from…

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