Leith Community Growers are a vibrant group that have contributed so much to their local community over the years – including distributing 100 planters around the area during lockdowns, providing free hot meals to the community during winter months, and running regular growing workshops with a range of local organisations such as Saheliya, Pilton Youth Project, and North East Edinburgh Elderly Care Action.

They’re always keen to try something new and regularly take on a wide-range of exciting growing projects – flax seed fashion, wheat growing and bread making, mushroom cultivation – you name it, there’s something for everyone to enjoy! They’ve also hosted events and stalls as part of Edinburgh Climate Festival in recent years with huge success, and you can often find them at Leith Walk Police Box for a chat about community growing, usually with some free seeds or plants thrown in.

A huge project for them at the moment is the Leith Links Orchard, where they’ve been planting a wide-range of produce and a wildflower patch, and recently held a fruit harvest festival. They also have a pop-up garden on Leith Walk, so there’s so many ways to get involved.

Take a peek at their Instagram for a look at some of these projects, and check out their calendar here!