If you have ordered manure this time please be at the allotment on Saturday 27 March (around eleven o’clock) to take delivery and pay for bags.
Bags are 60p each, please bring the right change if you have it.
Thanks
Author: John
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Allotment Strategy Consultation
The first draft of the new Allotment Strategy ‘Cultivating Communities: A Growing Concern’ has now been completed and was presented to the Transport, Infrastructure and Environment Committee on 9 February 2010. The Committee approved the document for wider consultation to run until 23rd April 2010.
The draft strategy is available at www.edinburgh.gov.uk/haveyoursay/ or from the Allotment Officer – Ian Woolard, tel: 0131 311 7072
Due to the success of last year’s BBQ we have decided to try to fit in two this year, one in May on a Saturday and one in August on a Sunday.
It will probably take the same format as last year with an hour or so work on the community plot/ pond followed by lots to eat and drink. The BBQ equipment will be provided and everyone brings their own food. Last year people brought extra to share around so we were all stuffed and some of us a bit tipsy!! But don’t worry there is no requirement to partake of the alcoholic beverages. In any event it was a most enjoyable day and we will do our best to do it all again this year.
Everyone is welcome – the more the merrier! More info nearer the time.
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The Manure Order
Orders for Manure are now closed.
Date for delivery to follow.
If you want free slabs you can pick them up from the car park behind the flats at Adelphi Place in Portobello, They are the pavement slabs that are being replaced along Portobello High Street. They come in two sizes, standard and foot square. They can be collected during working hours and are free subject to availability. The contract is coming to a close so get there early to avoid disappointment.
Plotholders John & Val Maule share their memories of Craigentinny Allotments in what we hope will be the first of several ‘Allotment Tales’.
I first acquired an allotment at Craigentinny in 1972, whilst renting a flat in Leith. There was not a waiting list then, and there were several vacant plots when I toured the site to select mine. I was asked how many plots I would like since most of the gardeners had more than one! I chose a plot by the golf course fence on the area currently occupied by part of the communal garden.
Interestingly, the layout of the site was then somewhat different to the present arrangement
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Monthly Meetings 2010
We had a meeting on the first Saturday in February and we will continue this year, as before, by having an 11.00 meeting on the first Saturday of each month. February’s meeting was well attended, especially given the poor weather and we look forward to seeing you at the next meeting on 6th March.
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New order of Manure
If you want a delivery of manure (same basis as before) please add your name, plot number, phone number and number of bags required, to the sheet on the notice board.
Once we have enough for a delivery we will organise and let you know when it will be delivered.
This article is about new Edinburgh Allotments and the waiting lists. Hope it is of interest. Find it on Edinburgh Evening News.
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Minutes, November, 2009
NOVEMBER 2009 MINUTES.
Present: John and Monica McKinlay , Rod, George, Norma Carlyon, John Maule and Ernie Curtis.
Apologies: Katie Ferguson, Tom Cashman and Joan Anderson.
1. Thanks:
As usual there were many people to thank. All those who helped with the work on the community day, the plot and pond are looking good. Joan and Ernie for their work on the pond, Katie and Tom for supplying the pebbles for the pond, Helen and Richard for setting up the web site and George Brown for continuing to strim the plot.
2 Break-in:
Another one, if you have been affected you can report it by e-mail or phone – see notice. The fence does not seem to have been breached this time and the replacement section of fence has been put in place.
3 Recycling Bay:
Please only place in the bay items of reasonably usable quality, it is getting full of bits and pieces that are well passed their sell by date.
4 Draft Constitution:
The main discussion of the meeting centered on this. John pointed out that the idea of having a Constitution was so that we could get grants, but he was conscious of the fact that the majority of plotholders had no interest in having a Constitution. Having said that, there was a significant minority who seemed to be interested. To test this interest John asked those present to indicate if they continued to support the setting up of a Constitution and the support was unanimous. That said, what we have at the moment is still only a proposed draft. This will remain the case in the meantime. Copies of the draft are still available by e-mailing findlayalloments@hotmail.co.uk or by request to John or Monica 661 4373 and there is still a copy in the Clubhouse. Comments and suggestions are very welcome.
I was asked by plotholders at the meeting to confirm that nothing in the draft constitution changes a plotholder’s conditions of tenancy. This is the case and all tenancy issues will remain a matter between the plotholder and the Council, in the person of the Allotment Officer. In particular the application of the termination of tenancy procedures. Personally I am very glad that this is the case, as with 140 plus people waiting for plots on our site, it is perhaps inevitable that Ian may have to apply the conditions and procedures less sympathetically in the future as he has in the past.
The draft proposals would be open for discussion into next year. In the early spring interested plotholders would call for a Special General Meeting to adopt the draft Constitution and appoint our first committee. At least 3 weeks notice of this meeting would be given.
Our next meeting will be the first Saturday in February 2010.