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The Orchard, Leith Links...
The Leith Links Children’s Orchard was planted in April 2010 as an educational resource for local children to learn about food, fruit and biodiversity. The Orchard was managed by Greener Leith until the charity was dissolved in 2018. At the end of 2021, Leith Community Growers took over official management of the orchard, hoping to bring some new life to a lovely corner of the Links and restore it to its previous glory through hosting community events and workshops.
The Orchard boasts many different varieties of well-established and fruiting apple, pear, plum, cherry, crab apple and damson trees, including some rare, historic old varieties you won’t find in the shops. Around three sides of the orchard is an ‘edible hedge’ containing red and black currants, raspberries and brambles, gooseberries, elderberries, hawthorn, honeysuckle and rowan.
Fruit for everyone...
The Orchard is planted on land owned by the City of Edinburgh Council and although it is fenced off, anyone can visit the orchard at any time. For this reason anyone is welcome to make use of the fruit that grows in the orchard. We ask that anyone picking fruit tries to leave some for other people if possible.
Leith Community Growers are very excited about rejuvenating this space as an educational resource for children and adults alike, using it to come together as a community and to encourage awareness of and potential for food growing in urban areas.
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