TCV Edinburgh

This week we were at Donkey Field Orchard and Blackford Pond. At Donkey Field we spent most of our time shovelling hardcore, raking it and stamping it down. On the Wednesday we briefly had a chance to see two rare sights, ...
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The weather has truly turned into winter this week (you can see your breath inside the office), and we were back at donkey field. It didn't look too promising in the morning, but by the time we reached the site on both ...
Continue reading Winter path work

There was a fun beginning to the fortnight at Donkey Field Orchard, where we started laying the edging boards for the path. There were several head-scratching moments with us puzzling out the geometry, but it worked out ...
Continue reading A fishy fortnight

So this week we were back at Donkey Field Orchard, over in Brunstane. We had a bit of a wet start to the week, with a spot of rain on the Tuesday, but we are never put off by getting a bit wet and our fantastic volunteers ...
Continue reading Having a donkey of a time

Well, a new week and a brand new project for us! This week we went off to Donkey Field Orchard (no, there were no donkeys in it sadly) to start a path building project. This area is run by a group called PEDAL, Portobello ...
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