Claire Bates

This month I had an amazing event take place at The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. It was one of the most rewarding days I do wish I had my own camera to take photographs, so apologies I will have to ...
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  Food Glorious Food So where to begin September was very busy for me with lots of training courses and events to plan. Firstly I had a Food Foraging Course with Anna. It was a very inspiring day whereby I got to ...
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Thanks to Louise Olley my amazing volunteer photographer who works a an  Assistant Herbarium Curator at RBGE we managed to capture Drylaw Neighborhood Centre's  trip to Holyrood Park. One by one we went marching up the ...
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 The wonders of Holyrood Park It was time to host the first Holyrood Park event for the MECOPP group; they were unable to visit in June. On this day I had visions of the sun blazing down on us, you know that lovely feeling ...
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It's already the end of June and I have become addicted to picking elderflower. I have enjoyed making Elderflower Cordial with my youth Group and plan to pop into the chippy and ask if they can batter some elderflower heads ...
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