HeyJaredEdinburgh Outdoors
Edinburgh Outdoors is a podcast that explores Edinburgh’s green spaces and the people in them. From community gardens to wild or secret spaces, learning about our city or just finding time to get outside, being outdoors in Edinburgh is the best place to be.
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Lauriston Allotments: mud huts, pizzas and hedgehogs (opens the original)
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Lauriston Allotments, part of Lauriston Agroecology Farm, host multi-cultural gardening and the most vibrant community of gardeners. I met with Lisa Houston to discover how this location has become a hub and home for a diverse range of people. We explored the many wildlife spots and she explained how they'd built a mud kitchen and pizza oven. Join my exploration of this unique space and its multi-cultural gardening, with many surprises along the way. Lauriston partners with the Granton Community
Growing in Granton (opens the original)
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Granton Community Growers is a wonderful example of a neighbourhood initiative that started small and then grew beautifully in ambition. From a one-off meet-up, when a group got together to dig up a street corner, to a sourdough bakery producing pay-what-you-can bread, many street corners now in production, and a garden where people come together to cook and eat, this is real community in action. To the backdrop of the most delicious food smells, I met with Tom Kirby who told me how he started t
Greyfriars Kirkyard: History, Harry and Hutton (opens the original)
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Greyfriars Kirkyard is a tourist hotspot with millions visiting each year to seek out Harry Potter graves, poltergeists and the much-loved Greyfriar's Bobby. I met with the brilliant Mark Hatton of the Friends of the Kirkyard to find out much more about the space, its history and heritage. Dating back to an original group of farming friars, for centuries the Kirkyard was Edinburgh's only green space and it's packed full of interesting history which is well worth discovering. The Kirkyard is HERE
Scotland's Stones monument and the Song of the Ice (opens the original)
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Steve Garrett, musician, artist, writer and geo scientist is performing in this year's Fringe: The Song of the Ice at St Mark's Church on 13-15; 18-20; and 26-28 August. We met at the Scotland's Stones monument in Regent Road Garden to talk about Deep Time, creating music from carbon data, how creativity can communicate science and his time in the Antarctic. In a first for Edinburgh Outdoors, Steve brought his guitar and so we listened to his haunting and beautiful music while contemplating Arth
Growing Matters walled garden in East Lothian (opens the original)
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Growing Matters is a community charity transforming the walled garden at Gilmerton House in East Lothian. Ten years into a 25 year plan, they are bringing biodiversity, wildlife and lots of flowers and produce to a previously unloved four acre space. With volunteers including a beekeeper, a hydrologist, a willow specialist and skilled gardeners, the garden is a wonderful community project that's transforming lives through the outdoors and creating an oasis within swathes of largescale farmland.
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