We’d like your photos! Still time to enter (closes end of October).
Don’t be intimidated by the standard of international nature photography competitions, we’d like your phone photos, of things you see around you.
The point is together to capture a snippet of some of the amazing species we share our community with. (also prizes for different age categories)
More details here: https://www.grantoncommunitygardeners.org/photo-competition
Free family circus skills session! with Think Circus
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Cirque Du Cycle is bringing circus to your community this October 
We bring circus skills and creative play to parks and community spaces around Edinburgh using our custom built e-Cargo bike.
Our experienced team of tutors and volunteers make circus skills accessible to people of all ages through skill sharing, play and a little bit of circus magic. 
So come along and throw, catch, twist, twirl and have fun with us! 
Everyone is welcome, no experience needed, just come ready to play.”
HARVEST FESTIVAL 2026:
Sat 26th September 3-5.30pm at the community garden (10 Wardieburn Road).
With Ama-zing Harmonies, Granton Garden Bakery, and others!
We’re looking forward to celebrating, and you’re all invited! Free event.
Contact us if you’d like to help out, or to contribute a song or other performance..
All apple dessert entries should be delivered by 3.30pm. We can provide local apples on the two Wednesday afternoons before, come to the garden to collect. First prize is a £20 gift voucher for Granton Garden Bakery.
GRANTON COMMUNITY GARDENERS
THIS WEDNESDAY (29th) AT THE COMMUNITY GARDEN. OUR SUMMER BBQ, FREE EVENT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Scran Academy and Granton Garden Bakery
The swifts are back! They spend the winter flying (without ever landing!) and go all the way to North Africa and back.
During the summer, they’re back, and it’s our neighbourhood where they choose to bring up a family. These amazing birds can eat 100,000 insects per day (including midgies) and can fly at 69mph!
We’re having a wee party to celebrate their return. See poster for details.
Lots of us have been learning more about the different species we share Granton with, and the things we can do to be good neighbours to them. Come join us!
WEDNESDAY 22nd APRIL from 4 – 4.45pm
Come and meet our new seeds!
They’re all neatly packed in envelopes and waiting to go to new homes. Or perhaps you have some of your own that need somewhere new to grow?
You can swap or use packets from our brand-new seed library. Lisa will advise you in this handy drop-in session if you have questions.
In partnership with Granton Community Gardeners .
Excited to announce our 11th annual Burns Night Community Ceilidh! Always a highlight of the Winter!
Tickets now on sale from Royston Wardieburn Community Centre reception (weekdays, cash only), and Granton Garden Bakery (Saturdays 10-1, cash or card). All tickets £4. Under 10s free.
If you’d like to volunteer to help at the event, or to offer a short performance (a turn) please contact tom@grantoncommunitygardeners.org
All volunteers and performers get a free ticket.
With Ama-zing Harmonies, musicians from Tinderbox Collective, and the Granton Primary School poets. Pilton Community Health Project, Granton Youth.
Please join us for a community walk along the coast from Wardie Bay to Granton / Royston (the ‘Brick’) Beach to search for flat oyster shells on Remembrance Day for Lost Species.
Meet on November 30th 2025 at 2pm to walk together and find out about the restoration of seagrass habitats and European flat oyster populations in the Firth of Forth – a species which used to be abundant and was fished to local extinction around 100 years ago.
Together, we will search for evidence of these flat oysters, and there will be talking and sharing about our concerns for the health of the sea and the species who live in, and depend on, it.
We anticipate the event lasting 1.5 hours. It may be cold, so please bring a flask of something hot and wear warm clothes and suitable footwear. We will end at The Pitt where a variety of drinks and food will be on sale.
This event has been thought up by Katie Smith from Granton Community Gardeners who is working to gather local knowledge about our wildlife and build a Granton nature restoration plan, and Tamsin Grainger, local walking artist with an interest in local history and community wellbeing.
Free (you can make a donation to cover costs if you like).
Everyone is welcome including children and dogs. This walk will be manageable on wheels. We aim to be inclusive and open.
We hope to walk with representatives from Restoration Forth and Edinburgh Shoreline
Wildflower Planting in East Pilton Park this Saturday 10.30-1 (11th October) with Granton Community Gardeners. Free, family friendly activity.
Join us to add wildflower seeds and spring bulbs to the long grass patches of East Pilton Park (around the new tree plantings).
As well as looking beautiful, we hope to improve the area for pollinators and also increase the number of invertebrates (insects and other wee bugs) for our local birds to eat.
We are particularly hoping to help increase the food supply for our nearby swift colony and this project goes hand in hand with plans we have to give the swifts more good local nesting sites by adding swift boxes to buildings.
Amazingly, the council’s ecologists have found that long grass areas can have as much as 90 times more life than short grass. Let’s add flowers to make them even better!
Please get in touch if you’re planning to come so we can bring a sensible number of tools: email katie@grantoncommunitygardeners.org
(Also dress for the weather, and bear in mind that the closest public toilets are in Ainsley Park Leisure Centre).
You can also check out more about our ‘Nature in Granton’ project via new page on our website:
NATURE IN GRANTON: WE WANT YOUR VIEWS!
More or less trees, foxes or gulls? Get that grass cut or let the wildflowers grow? Is nature helping with your mental health, or helping kids let off steam? Are there ways we could help nature thrive more, or should we tarmac the lot?!
Would you be up for chatting about nature in Granton for an hour for a £10 voucher (for Morrisons or Granton Garden Bakery – your choice)?
We’ll be running focus groups: Tuesday 7th October: 10-11am or 11.30am-12.30, at Pilton Community Health Project, 73 Boswall Parkway. (tea/coffee and biscuits provided).
Places limited: to sign up please email: tom@grantoncommunitygardeners.org
We’re also launching an online survey, and would be grateful if anyone local could spend a few minutes filling it in (as much or little as you like):
