Granton Castle Walled Garden has stood on the coast of north Edinburgh since the turn of the 16th century and is managed by the community. It is a historic green-space where anyone can volunteer or visit.
The Friends of Granton Castle Walled Garden run four volunteer and two visitor sessions per week, alongside a wide range of seasonal workshops (wreath-making, eco-therapy, flower arranging, polytunnel building, tree planting, wassailing). The community garden is a space for a number of collaborative charities to run sessions and hosts four social enterprises – a flower farm, an apiary, a mushroom farm and a dye-plant and ecoprinting enterprise.
“The garden is a haven for me. Peaceful, purposeful and friendly”
Volunteer, 2021
Visit us
We welcome visitors every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, weather permitting!
- March—October
- 14:00—16:00
- (November—February
- 13:00—15:00)
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Volunteer with us
Interesting in helping our community garden thrive? Keen on gardening? Got experience doing things with your hands? Got none? Regardless we would love to have you volunteer with us!
Some activities you might be doing are sowing and planting crops, building deep beds, weeding, helping set up our rainwater collection system and planting trees. We always find time during a session to come together for lunch or a cuppa.
Some of our projects
Flower Farm
Agroforestry
Rainwater Harvesting