Seed
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The Resilient Seed
Coming through the establishing of the Portobello Seed Share project earlier in the year with Access to Industry and Portobello Library, and alongside our coastal garden Shore Hunt, this programme will consider how best to nurture resilient growing systems, and ways to protect local plant diversity. A series of events are planned in the autumn…
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Portobello Seed Share
Portobello Seed Share supports sustainable growing with the aim of developing a seed bank of local resilient seed to be saved and shared. We invite you to visit Portobello Library to browse, borrow or add your homegrown seed to the collection box. When borrowing seed please list in the log book the seeds you are taking,…
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Portobello Seed Share
a space to save and share Portobello’s local seed Portobello Seed Share supports sustainable growing developing a seed bank of local resilient seed to be saved and shared. We invite you to browse, borrow or add open pollinated seed to the new Seed Share located in Portobello Library. This seed project comes through Remedy, a coastal…
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Remedy
Working across areas of experimental photo-arts, coastal ecology and medicinal health, Remedy is an exploratory based community project working with a number of participants from Access to Industry. Led by photographer Zoe Hamill, and working in collaboration with herbalists from Herbal Scotland, a series of eight workshops have recently being held in Portobello. Top image…
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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,…