The Lost Garden of Penicuik

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

PICTURES OF THE LOST GARDEN OF PENICUIK

THE LOST GARDEN OF PENICUIK

SEE MORE IMAGES HERE OR GO TO

THE STORY OF THE LOST GARDEN

LOST GARDEN POTATO DAYS IN PENICUIK TOWN HALL 2015

LOST GARDEN LATEST

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 3^rd 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.