Planting
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The Neighbouring Orchard
Recent – Walking Wassail, January 2026 This year, community song leader Jane Lewis has been working with local growers to co-create a new wassailing song for the Neighbouring Orchard. On Saturday 24th January we held our first ‘walking wassail’, visiting some of the apple trees growing in Portobello and singing our new song to them. Wassailing…
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Shore Hunt
Shore Hunt was originally conceived by artists Rudy Kanhye and Lauren La Rose as part of their Fallow Land residency (commissioned by Art Walk Projects, (2025) developing a stretch of urban scrubland into a thriving habitat. Their Warning Lights mural, installed for the 2025 Art Walk Porty Festival, takes the beacon symbol as an indicator…
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Fallow Land
Fallow Land centres around four artist residencies (Oct 24 to May 25) creating a series of interdisciplinary place-centred projects across working and post-agricultural lands involving Portobello, Craigentinny and Jedburgh culminating in an exhibition at Mote102 Leith Edinburgh (9-17 May 2025) and new journal publication: Fallow Land produced by Rosy Naylor and Tom Jeffreys. Over a period…
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Flowering Porty
Across 32 private front gardens, window boxes and community growing spaces, Flowering Porty, brought colour and wildlife to our local streets and communities. Winners now announced, with 312 votes received. First: Garden 14, 36 Marlborough Street Second: Garden 15, 13 Marlborough Street Third: Garden 25, 8A Dalkeith Street Gardeners were invited to create pollinator-rich growing…
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Repel and attract
Inspired by the unexpected presence of tomato seedlings thriving in the water treatment plant at Seafield, TONYA McMULLAN develops connections between waste, water, ecology and scent. This work also connects to the artist’s love of community gardens, several of which thrive in the areas around Seafield and Portobello and are at the forefront of innovative…
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Plot to Plate Cook Book
In recognition of 100 years of allotment growing at local Craigentinny Telferton Allotments, Art Walk Press recently published this new cookbook with illustrated wraparound cover, working closely with the allotments and artists Felicity Bristow and Susie Wilson.
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The Neighbouring Orchard Book by Annie Lord
Art Walk Press publish The Neighbouring Orchard by Edinburgh artist and writer Annie Lord. The new book tells the story of Lord’s major ongoing artwork, creating a community of 160 apple trees across Edinburgh’s coastal suburbs. Fusing original drawings, interviews with growers, archive maps and photography by Edinburgh photographer Ellie J McMaster, the book tells the story…
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Plot 55b
Felicity Bristow and Susie Wilson first began their residency in 2019 working the land from their garden shed at Plot 55b at Craigentinny Telferton Allotments. However due to the lockdown in March 2020 the artists continued to work together, though apart, developing a growing project sending seed to each other and other participants to grow,…
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Plot 55B Artist Book by Felicity Bristow & Susie Wilson
Resulting from Bristow+Wilson’s two-year engagement with the site of Craigentinny Telferton allotments during their Plot 55b residency, this artist bookwork documents the time of the Covid-19 pandemic and their experience of developing a seed library.