Good Roots

GOOD ROOTS IS 5! 🥳 Five years ago we broke ground in our little patch of Stenhouse with the first of our fruit trees and now we’ve officially become an orchard 💚 We can’t wait for the year ahead - join us again from Thurs 16 April at 10am for regular gardening sessions! 🌿

Our next community litter pick is happening on Saturday 4th April at 10:30am - come help us keep Stenhouse beautiful! 🌿

💕 Show Stenhouse some love this Valentines Day and join us at Good Roots for a community litter pick! We’ll be kicking off at 10.30am - all equipment provided! 💕

Next Saturday we are taking part in a community litter pick - come and get involved with making Stenhouse beautiful! 💚

Last week was the last Good Roots session for this year, after another brilliant year in the garden!🌱 As we head into the colder months, we want to thank all the brilliant volunteers who have joined us in 2025 and we hope to see you again in 2026! 😄

🌳FREE TREES!🌳 The Woodland Trust will be in the garden on Thurs 18 Sept to launch an exciting initiative to plant more trees! 🙌 Launch from 10am, free garden tree drop-in for local folk from 12pm until 2pm to plant in your own garden 🌳

A HUGE thank you to Debbie, the community champion from @Tesco Corstorphine, who has donated bulbs and compost to Good Roots! 🌱👏 We can’t wait to get planting and see these lovely bulbs bloom next Spring 🌼

Last week we said goodbye to a special member of the Good Roots community who has sadly passed. Raymond had planted, potted and mowed for a years with us and we wanted to make sure we don’t forget him. Thanks for everything Raymond 💚

Last weekend we had some wonderful volunteers in the garden to help prepare for our annual reopening 🌿 Check out what they got up to in this brilliant video 🎥 Stay tuned for the reopening date! 😄

Some highlights from last year in the garden 🌿 2024 saw even more friends join us for growing, chatting and drinking plenty of tea and coffee, as well as being the year that the garden became even more accessible with the building of our accessibility beds! 👏

☀️ SUMMER SESSIONS 🌿 Good Roots is open on Thursdays throughout June-Aug for gardening, activities, coffee and chat. Come and join us! 😄 All ages and experiences welcome from 10am 💚

Can’t make it along on Thursday? Our first weekend opening of the year is on Sunday 5th May from 12.30pm! Stay tuned for further upcoming weekend dates as well. See you in the garden! 🥦🥕🥒🍆🌽

Come and grow with us! 🌿 The garden is ready to open its gates for a new year on Thursday 18th April from 10am. There’s plenty to get involved with, even if you’ve never gardened before 😄

GOOD ROOTS IS 3! 🥳 Three years ago we broke ground in our little patch of Stenhouse and planted the first of our fruit trees 🌿 Since then we’ve built several beds, grown a variety of tasty fruit and veg and met loads of brilliant people in our neighbourhood 💚

The Good Roots Garden is getting ready to open its gates once more! Today a small team of helpers came to check out the progress on the new accessibility path and to build and prepare the accessible raised beds, as well as build some new ground beds 🌿 Opening date coming soon!

It may have been our last regular session of the year, but there will be some one-off sessions during the cooler months to get involved with - keep an eye out for more information on being part of building our new wheelchair-friendly beds! 🔨

It might have been windy today but that didn’t stop us enjoying the last Thursday session of the year! 🌬️😄 Big thanks to everyone who helped Good Roots thrive this year 😊🌱

Summer in the garden ☀️ Here are just a few highlights from our Thursday sessions, including some garden firsts: 1st plum, tomatoes 🍅 & gigantic cabbage 🥬 Thursdays sessions will be continuing in September from 10am, so there’s still time to join in. See you in the garden! 🌱

GOOD NEWS! We reached our £1200 fundraising target to build wheelchair-friendly raised beds! 🥳 A HUGE thank you to all who gave to make this possible - thanks to you we can make Good Roots more accessible to more friends of the garden 🌿🤩

On Friday we welcomed some Beavers back to the garden who had an awesome time completing their gardening badge! 🌿 They dug up the potatoes they had planted 🥔 checked out the bugs in the compost bin 🪱 and played some games around the garden! Good work Beavers! 😄