THE
LOST GARDEN OF PENICUIK
PENICUIK
COMMUNITY FOOD PROJECT
RESTORING
PENICUIK’S LOST WALLED GARDEN
An initiative of the
Penicuik Community Development Trust
MIDLOTHIAN DOORS OPEN DAY Sat 10
Sept 2016
Free walking tours start
from the Penicuik House Carlops Road carpark on the hour at 12 noon,1pm,2pm,3pm and 4pm
Wait for our tour guide
by the gate to the field with a grassy track on the right hand side of the car park
Or follow the grassy track
and visit the Lost Garden by yourself: it’s a food growing project so keep all dogs
on a lead please
FEBRUARY
2012: THE PROJECT BEGINS
In February 2012, after three years of
negotiations with the owners Penicuik House Estate, the Trust began a long-term
lease on the great brick-built Penicuik Estate Walled Garden. It’s the first
step in what we see as a 50 year project for food production and garden
restoration.
Now in 2015 we’ve three years of growing behind
us. Take a look at the 50 varieties of
seed potato we’re offering to growers on our Saturday Potato Days throughout
February and March in Penicuik Town Hall. Full details of
times and pictures and details of varieties here.
Or look at details of the tonne of produce we grew in
the Lost Garden last year
Look back
at a potted history of the Garden
Download
our 48-page booklet on the Garden story –with new pictures from the 1950s
Watch David Miller’s television
news report on the Lost Garden on BBC Reporting Scotland
Listen to Penny Latin's Kitchen
Garden visit to the Lost Garden on BBC Radio Scotland
Listen to the Lost Garden Gardeners
Question Time from Penicuik Town Hall with Eric Robson and Ann Swithinbank in the Garden, Bob Flowerdew and Carole
Baxter.
Hear the same panel and Lost Garden audience with
a second
programme of questions broadcast a month later
Look around at what we’ve been doing
since we started onsite
See what’s been
happening now and our plans
for the future
Take a walking tour of the Lost Garden on the
first Sunday of the month at 2pm from the Penicuik House Estate carpark at
Carlops Road
Or join us for a look at other times
Make contact with Roger Kelly, Roma Robertson,
Thoren Ferguson, Norma Coutts, Sandie Hunter and the rest of the team
roger@kosmoid.net 01968 677854
or you can speak to the
Trust volunteers at the Penycoe Press 01968 673767
or at our Saturday Open
House and Sunday Cinema at Penicuik Town Hall
“This is the Lost Garden of Penicuik. It’s a
project I’ve been passionate about from the day we first put it together in
2009. I hope you will be too.”
-Roger Kelly, convener and co-founder of
Penicuik Community Development Trust
For the story behind the Lost Garden’s
original creation and decay see www.lostgarden.co.uk/story
For notes on progress with growing and
restoration since we took over see www.lostgarden.co.uk/latest
For some images of the Lost Garden over
the years since its creation in the 1880s see www.lostgarden.co.uk/look
See The Lost Garden short as shown at
Edinburgh Filmhouse http://vimeo.com/62824408
pages at www.penicuiktrust.org.uk/garden/the-lost-garden
will show you how to find the garden, how to
join a tour, how to help, and more pictures
For the Lost Garden Potato Days at Penicuik
Town Hall see http://www.lostgarden.co.uk/potato.pdf
For our original food project
perspective
www.lostgarden.co.uk/food2009
and the inaugural prospectus
for this project www.lostgarden.co.uk/prospectus2009
Pictures of the Garden at its most Lost
in July 2009 www.lostgarden.co.uk/pictures2009
Our new community shop PENYCOE
PRESS in Bridge Street Penicuik handles Lost Garden
potatoes in season www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/press
Or find Lost Garden &
Breadshare Bakery produce at Valleyfield Saturday Market http://www.kosmoid.net/vh or at Saturday Open House in the Town Hall
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LOST
GARDEN POTATO DAYS IN PENICUIK TOWN HALL 2015
Or find Lost Garden &
Breadshare Bakery produce at Valleyfield Saturday Market http://www.kosmoid.net/vh or at Saturday Open House in the Town Hall
Our new community shop PEN-Y-COE
PRESS in Bridge Street Penicuik
handles Lost
Garden potatoes in season www.kosmoid.net/penicuik/press
Find out more about Penicuik Trust projects at the Saturday
Open House in Penicuik Town Hall, at the Sunday Cinema, at Pen-y-Coe Press or at The Lost Garden. There are on-the-spot
exhibitions, on-the-spot hands-on crafts sessions for kids and adults, onsite
visits and more…
ABOUT THE PENICUIK TRUST:
Penicuik
Community Development Trust is a very active self-supporting voluntary
community organization. It runs its own
town centre retail and service businesses, a weekly
cinema, a weekly open house and café, and is restoring the magnificent Lost
Garden of Penicuik in a 50 year project.
The Trust was awarded Social
Enterprise of the Year in 2013.
The Trust is
responsible for the Lost Garden of Penicuik (Penicuik’s Food
Project supported by the Climate Challenge Fund), Penicuik
Saturday Open House, Penicuik Cinema, the Bankmill Project
(now dormant), Pen-y-coe Press and Old Post
Office and Penicuik
Vaults singers. Working groups are
developing proposals for a Penicuik Bakery in
existing town centre premises and .High Esk Hydro generation using existing weirs.
Launched at
a public meeting in March 2005, The Trust is a charitable company limited by
guarantee registered in Scotland with company number 380626 and OSCR charity
number SCO37990. The Trust is
governed by a team elected annually from the Penicuik community. The current
Directors and Trustees are Roger Kelly (convener/chair), Roger Hipkin
(secretary 20A John St. Penicuik EH26 8A), Jane
MacKintosh (treasurer), and Dave Stokes, Mose
Hutchison and Penny Wooding in a managing committee with John Scott (viceconvener), Jane Kelly, Linda Sheridan, Lynda Smith,
Lynn Niven, Marianne Cortes, Marjorie Bisset, Peter Middleton, Sid Gardner,
Simon Duffy, Ulla Hipkin. The Trust's last well-attended Annual General Meeting
was on 16 June 2014. Paid-up Membership
of around 200; Patrons: author Ian Macdougall, actor
Gerda Stevenson, Colonel Edward Cowan. Trust official website http://www.penicuiktrust.org.uk The Trust is a Member of Development Trusts
Association Scotland (DTAS); has partnered students and staff
Glasgow School of Art Architecture 3rd year in a major town centre improvement exercise, has worked with Greenspace
Scotland’s PlaceMaking initiative, takes part every
year in Doors Open Day, and works with support from
Penicuik Community Council, Midlothian Council, Midlothian Voluntary
Action, the
Midlothian Growing Ideas Partnership (including Midlothian Garden Services,
Mayfield & Easthouses Development Trust, and
other garden and food projects in Midlothian associated with the Federation of City
Farms and Community Gardens and Trellis), from Health In Mind, Tiphereth Edinburgh, New Caledonian Woodlands, Scottish
Greenspace and other therapeutic and educational partners. The Trust actively
partners local business in Penicuik
First Business Improvement District (BIDs) proposals for the town centre. The Trust’s Lost Garden works in partnership with
Penicuik High, Cornbank, Cuiken,
Sacred Heart and Strathesk Primaries in their joint
Food for Thought growing project.
Proposals are being prepared to run the Peni Deli or other town centre
premises as a Penicuik Bakery; and to find ways to restore hydropower plants at
the old weirs along the North Esk. These
projects Penicuik
Bakery and High
Esk Hydro are expected to emerge as separate
community enterprises backed by local share issue The Trust was instrumental in
initiating the Mapa Scotland restoration of the Great Polish Map
of Scotland at Eddleston; and supported the papermaking tercentenary led by Penicuik
Historical Society. The Trust
acknowledges its host of dedicated local supporters, far-seeing help in its
formative years from the late Fred Edwards, Barry Corlson,
and Brennan Soane, its many International Helpers young and old over the years
through the HelpX programme, and volunteer CO2
intern Abraham Sabido Marchena. It continues the work of long-standing local
enterprise the Penycoe Press,
and is inspired by a pioneering predecessor Penicuik Co-operative Association. It has personal and mutually supportive
links with Penicuik Hunter & Lass Committee, Robert Smail’s
Printing Works at Innerleithen, the Penicuik
Community Sport & Leisure Foundation, Penicuik
Community Arts Association, the Penicuik
House Project, the Wojtek Memorial Trust, the Scottish
Civic Trust, and the Saltire Society, with community groups and
trusts in Aberfeldy, Broughty
Ferry, Gorebridge
and Moffat, with Penicuik’s twin town at L’Isle-sur-la Sorgue, Vaucluse, Provence, with Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec and with the Papeterie
St-Armand in Montreal. The Trust can be contacted through the
trustee-directors and at its main day-to-day business premises at Penycoe Press,
7 Bridge Street, Penicuik EH26 8LL telephone 01968 673767 Monday-Saturday 10am
– 4pm. The Trust’s solicitors are
Gillespie Macandrew LLP and its insurance brokers
Keegan & Pennykid.
A
copy of Penicuik Community Development Trust Ltd Articles of Association can be
seen here
We need your help. Working together
we can all do more for the people and places we love
Roger Kelly 01968 677854 07726 862850
JONATHAN WHITFIELD: GROWING UP IN THE LOST GARDEN
JOHN DENNIS: VICTORIAN ARTIST IN BRICK
PICTURES OF BIELD COMMUNITY WALLED GARDEN, PERTHSHIRE
PENICUIK’S SATURDAY MARKET FOR ORGANIC & FAIRTRADE FOOD
FROM YASNAYA POLYANA TO
THE LOST GARDEN OF PENICUIK
PILLAR AND MOON : THE GRAND
ENTRANCE TO NOWHERE
Penicuik Community Development Trust
Saturday Open House in the Town
Hall:
See some of the 200 AND MORE PENICUIK OPEN
HOUSE DISPLAYS ON THE INTERNET
TOM ADAMS TOWN PLANNER FROM
CARLOPS TO NEW YORK
ROBERT
NASMYTH AND PENICUIK’S CORNBANK DESIGN
THE
COWAN PAPER ADVERTISEMENTS OF 1944
JOHN
DENNIS AND THE ESKBRIDGE BRICKWORKS
DEMOLITION OF VALLEYFIELD MILL IN 1980
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ROGER KELLY
PENICUIK EH26 8HS
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