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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Very pleased to see this on the planning portal. The Greenway adventure playground once through planning is expected to be constructed this year. This will be right next to the Greenway Garden Learn more and comment 👇 citydev-portal.edinburgh.gov.uk/idoxpa-web/a...

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Ellie organised a great early season community event in the Greenway Garden on Sunday. So many things going on! Loved the games with Edinburgh Disc Golf - look out for the new course in Hailes Quarry Park.

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Stunning weather out in the Calders Greenshoots garden this afternoon. Good to see folk out starting to get seeds in the ground and tidying. Garden looking 👍

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Lots of Greenway garden members busy getting their beds ready this morning. Max, Ricky, & Taff cleaning the polytunnel, sorting composts heaps, building stuff and Islam and Sultana brought us all some delicious sweet treats to celebrate Eid. 🙏🏻much appreciated.

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Stunning day. ☀️☀️☀️ perfect for the @theorchardproject.bsky.social & WHHS students who were really engaged & great ambassadors for the school. Learning all about orchard care. Ricky, Max, & Taff sorted out the compost heaps,

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Beautiful morning in the Greenway Garden with the Hailesland Early Years group. Bright as wee buttons. We found lots of worms, learned about seeds, what they need to grow, & spotted water snails in the pond. Sowed a small section of broad beans in their bed & plan to sow more crops 😎

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Dr Scott Arthur MP (Edinburgh South West) 🌍🌈🌹 @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

This coming Friday I am hosting a job fair with the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP). 📅 Friday, 20 March 🕛 11 .m.-2 p.m. ⛪ Gorgie Dalry Stenhouse Church (190-92 Gorgie Road, EH11 2NX) 💚 FREE More info & sign up can be found online: www.eventbrite.com/e/job-fair-s...

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Over winter our fantastic volunteers have been making improvements in the Calders Greenshoots garden. We’ve installed solar harvesting system with potting bench and storage included, made many improvements in the community shed, installed a second water harvesting…

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Wild morning in the garden for volunteers. An especially tough start for the @theorchardproject.bsky.social and WH High School students who had their first session this morning on an Orchard Care course. Ricky,Taff, & Max cleaned up around the garden and in the polytunnel. Brutal conditions.

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Tom Hogg 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tomhogg.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

A ladybird in the @whgrowers.bsky.social Greenway Garden today. Spring is springing.

A ladybird sits on a plant stalk in bright sunshine, with fresh greenery around it.

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Lots of our honey bees enjoying the sun and having good drink from water pooled on our cold frames too. 🐝🐝🐝

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Greenway Garden grassy area cleared of rubbish this morning. 4 bins bags full picked by Kevin & Ellie. 🙌 we’ll be back at 10am next Saturday to pick more. Come and join us. 👌

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Finished off the water harvesting system this morning and Ricky got started on a picnic bench for the Calders Greenshoots garden. We’ll finish that next Saturday. Cleared out bits and pieces from the main shed too.

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Fresh and beautiful in the Calders Greenshoots garden this morning. Lovely in the warm sun. ☀️

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Lots of tidying & sorting of stuff from Taff, Ricky, Max, & my Wester Hailes High School students sowed a bed of broad beans in the polytunnel this afternoon. Also gave the medicinal plant bed a wee tidy. Maryse has been doing a wonderful job pruning all the currents & fruit trees around the garden.

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Love seeing this. Lots of great school farmers at Sighthill Primary School that Shona has done a great job of nurturing at her sessions there. ❤️

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I think this sums up our session this morning in the Greenway Garden. Out with the frost hardy crew and joined by some of our perennial crew who prefer the extra warmth and light. Very happy to see Tom back for a visit, even with broken leg. A joyful morning. ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Busy making things, apple tree pruning, fruit shrub love, tying in Loganberries, weeding and then hanging out with Wester Hailes High School students, who helped care for the wormery, tried to navigate the garden with their eyes shut using a stick, and tried out some fitness challenges.

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Gave the hedge some more love today, tidying up around the Greenway Garden and a new surprise project for the garden from Ricky.

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

We're opening Greenway Garden for a day of gathering, growing, & celebrating together. Come along to sow seeds in the garden, swap seeds & growing tips, share your ideas about the upcoming Greenway Playground & Community Micro-hub, make art, learn about compost, drink tea, & enjoy BBQ.

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Tanks all connected and filling in. Calders Greenshoots this morning. Should have 8000 litres of harvested rainwater as we move into growing season. Potting bench ready for action too. We’ve got through a lot of tasks this winter thanks to two of our amazing volunteers, Ricky and Taff. 🙌🙌

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Longstone Community Council @longstonecc.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

This is the Edinburgh Disc Golf Community course layout in Hailes Quarry Park showing where the start for each hole/basket is. Marked up with yellow on the ground at present.

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Busy giving the Greenway Garden hedge a bit of care, building things from pallet wood, watering the polytunnel as the plants sense the extra daylight, with new growth evident. Plenty of old nests in evidence around the wildlife hedge which is great to see. 😁

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Lots of wee bits completed today with the crew in Calders Greenshoots Garden. Guttering sorted👌sink siliconed in, beds getting fixed, water tanks will be finished on Saturday, and we added some decent door handles to both sheds. Finally a sunny session ☀️☀️☀️☀️

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Only the brave and daft today at the Greenway Garden. Worms are doing great so gave them some more food to munch on. Maryse busy pruning and Ricky & Taff cleaning and tidying. Brr 🥶

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John Elliott @jazzjohnelliott.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Grassroots jazz at the Juniper Green Note in Baberton Golf Club. Next gig John Settle and Victor Estevez, 5 March 2026. Footage from a previous Juniper Green Note night — the atmosphere is the point. Tickets greennote.club #grassrootsjazz #edinburghjazz #junipergreennote #edinburghgigs #edinburgh

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Calders today - An appropriate day/week to add some rain harvesting guttering to the new system. Rain or sun we’re winning now 👌harvesting everything we can. 👍

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Last week in the Calders garden we got the tool washing sink functional again 👍 potting bench almost done.

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

We have an official new address in Wester Hailes. :)

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Satisfying morning in Calders Greenshoots garden finishing off the solar system wiring and getting it operational. 👌 Very grateful to the @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social community grant fund for the small grant to enable this project. Team effort from Ricky, Taff, Brian, and Darren. 🙏 Appreciated.

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Minging weather in the Greenway Garden, hanging out with Benny the blackbird, feeding the worms, tidying the tool shed, apple tree pruning, fridge cleaned, and spotted some very early grape hyacinth flowers.

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Quick reminder for the drop in session today between 10am and 2pm at the Greenway Garden. Help us build a Lego Microhub 🧱 and take a closer look at the designs for the adventure playground 🛝 There will be coffee and tea to keep our hands warm ☕🧱

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Good shift this morning in the Calders Greenshoots garden. Thanks to Ricky, Brian and Darren 🙏 we’ll get the solar system operational on Tuesday. 👍

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The Redwings have returned to the trees above the Greenway Garden again and are enjoying what’s left of the sea buckthorn berries. Our worms are doing well in their new home too.

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

A pair of blue tits booking a stay in Ricky’s amazing bird box that he made last year. Love is in the air in the Greenway Garden. ❤️

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Compost heaps well organised and doing their thing in the Clovie garden. Homemade compost is 👌

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Bit minging this morning in the Calders Greenshoots garden but we made some progress. Just need a decent weather day now for installing the solar panels.

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Chilly morning in the Calders Greenshoots garden. 🥶🥶🥶 Continuing work on rigging up the solar system.

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Lots of fun with Wester Hailes High School students this afternoon. Together we gritted the greenway path and bridge over the canal to make it safer for the older folks getting to Michael’s and the bus stops. Also for the Canal View pupils.

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Good to be back with the hardy troops at the Greenway garden this morning. Tidying the sheds, the garden, and we gritted the local paths near the garden and Michael’s shop.

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Spent the last Greenway Garden session of the year with our crew, volunteers, new volunteers, WHHS students, out talking with everyone we could about the plans for the new playpark & community micro hub. Busy year ahead. Thanks to everyone who’s helped, encouraged, & supported everyone this year. 🙏🏻

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Last session in the Calders Greenshoots garden for the year. Good progress being made on the solar harvesting fit out. More improvements to come when we start back in the new year. 👍

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Busy morning in the Calders Greenshoots garden building the solar panel unit with the troops, and then Christmas wreath making in the afternoon. A good productive day. 🎅🏻🧑‍🎄🤶🎄🎄🎄

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Play Scotland @playscotland.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

🚨 Report Published: Scottish School Grounds Survey Report 2025 We hope this report will inspire advocacy, investment, and innovation to ensure that all school grounds across Scotland are vibrant, inclusive spaces for play, learning, and community use. www.playscotland.org/resources/pr...

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Some great news. 👇

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Fun morning at the Sunflower Pantry with Clovie Community Garden and others making some outstanding free Xmas wreaths this year. We’ve given one to The Health Agency for the raffle at the Xmas fair on Thursday. 👍 Tomorrow we hit the Greenway Garden for another session!

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Clovie Garden white currants got some TLC now the rain has stopped. Cut out the dead wood and trimmed and opened up the centre for good healthy growth next year.

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Wester Hailes Growing Communities @whgrowers.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

A good shift this morning with the crew in the Calders Greenshoots Garden. We’ll be back on Tuesday morning to kick on some more. It’s now going to be a combined solar power / potting bench system. 👌Made possible with a Community Grant from @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social 🙏

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