Other Growing Groups and Courses
2024 Gardening course / workshops at Black Isle Brewery market garden, Allangrange
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- Second Season - 1st August 2024
Plan ahead for autumn and winter with our Second Season workshop. Ensure a year-round supply of vegetables with expert guidance on planning and sowing for the cooler months.
Thursday 1 August 10.00 - 2.00
Organic tea, coffee and cake provided. Please bring weatherproof clothing and a packed lunch if required.
Meet in the lecture room (ask for directions at the Black Isle Brewery shop if unable to find).
See below for booking
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Future workshops
- Harvest Festival - 24th October 2024
- Laying The Ground For Next Year - 14th November 2024
- Fruit Tree Pruning - 5th December 2024
Full details of each workshop and booking
https://www.blackislebrewery.com/workshops-and-events
The cost is £45.00 for individual workshops or £400 for the whole series.
View and download poster with all workshop dates
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March 2023
Incredible Edible Inverness
We want to share the joys of growing and eating together. You might have seen some of our beds around the city. Come and join our community and get digging with us and growing food to share. It doesn't matter if you don't know your onions from your leeks - we are all learners in the growing game! There could be a site somewhere near you, so get in touch and find out more.
National website General Incredible Edible information
Inverness contacts info@incredibleedibleinverness.co.uk
07960 301763
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January 2023
Knocknagael Community Growing Project
We are a community not-for-profit organisation established to take over the "Smiddy Field" - one of the fields at the Scottish Government-owned Knocknagael Farm on Essich Road in the south of Inverness - by an Asset Transfer Request.
The aim of the Knocknagael Community Growing Project is to create, maintain and manage food growing activities, including allotments, for the benefit of the community.
Plans under consideration include a community garden, allotments, a community orchard, food growing areas, and outdoor walking paths. We are in discussions with potential stakeholders including Education and Mental Wellbeing organisations.
With new housing going up all around Inverness, our aim is to create a Green Hub to get more people growing and enjoying local produce, while benefitting from a rural oasis in an increasingly urban landscape. We recently submitted comments to the Highland Council's Inner Moray Firth Development Plan, which is currently under review.
We have joined Community Land Scotland, the Community Woodlands Association, and been awarded a Stage 1 Grant by the Scottish Land Fund.
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Highland Seedlings / Fearn Free Food Garden
Mairi MacPherson
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'Pocket Orchards' in Wester Ross
Former TBI director John Wood and friends have been planting fruit trees in public spaces around the wester Ross villages since 2018.
Pocket Orchards update 2022 - by John Wood
A ‘pocket orchard’ is a small group of community fruit trees which are accessible, where possible, to local residents with no, or minimum driving. The inspiration came from the community orchard in the garden of Cromarty Courthouse Museum, the wonderful gardens at Inverewe, and noticing some neglected apple trees in an overgrown corner of Poolewe.
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To find out more or get involved with the project, visit the group’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pocketorchards
Or get in touch with them via email: pocketorchards@gmail.com
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Elphin Green Bowl online food market
The Green Bowl is a group of crofters and non-crofters in Elphin and Knockan (NW Sutherland), led by Helen O'Keefe and Tessa Dorrian, working together to market, sell and distribute locally grown food to our community. Seven producers sell a range of meat (beef, pork and mutton), eggs, honey, vegetables, fruit, herbs, bread and other baking. Most sales are online, with weekly home deliveries to customers around Ullapool or pickups from Elphin. In the summer, we also have a small farmshop, selling to tourists as well as residents.
Appletreeman
Andrew Lear, Perthshire https://plantsandapples.com/
Dunbar and District Local Good Food Alliance
MOO Food Muir of Ord
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