How to get involved

A sunset over the grounds of Gorgie Community Farm

Community Gardens

The garden area within Gorgie Community Farm is being developed as a welcoming space where people can learn, grow and connect with nature. Our aim is to create a shared garden that combines community managed areas with small allotment plots, regular volunteer sessions and creative projects. Alongside growing food and supporting biodiversity, the garden will host workshops, seasonal events and partnerships with local groups. We wish to build a volunteer-led garden where people feel ownership and pride in a calm and restorative space in the city.

Volunteer with us in the gardens

Please get in touch or fill out our contact form to join in and volunteer with us in the gardens.

There are other ways in which you can volunteer with Gorgie Community Farm, as every part of our work is driven by wonderful volunteers; caring for the site, running our events and activities and helping safeguard our future through fundraising. Opportunities are totally flexible and range from one off sessions to regular involvement, and roles from desk based to physical work. We also offer group sessions for community clubs and organisations. We encourage volunteers from all parts of the community, embracing difference and building a shared space which is welcoming for everyone.

Community Allotment Plots

Gorgie Community Farm will be home to a community allotment scheme from 2026 onwards. We will create small plots within the gardens for groups from the community to garden together. It is our goal to have shared responsibilities across the plots including organic gardening and to help foster community and shared knowledge through these allotment beds. If you are a small group of friends, colleagues or neighbours and are interested in a plot please contact us.

Donate

Gorgie Community Farm is funded in different ways:

Income from our partners
Donations from grant giving organisations
Corporate donations
Community groups
Gifts from individuals

Your support can help us rebuild and ensure that the farm remains a dynamic, collaborative, and natural space for the community that will continue to be enjoyed by future generations and we are truly grateful for any way in which you can support the farm.

If you’d like to make a contribution now, please visit our donation platform.

Donate now

Wishlist/Sponsorship

We have so much to do to make Gorgie Community Farm the vibrant space we’re working towards. We are developing the space, planning events and activities and building links with partners to make this happen. Offering items or services helps us save money rather than purchasing them and enables us to offer something else that we hadn’t planned on.

Gorgie Community Farm has received amazing help right from the beginning of the project with manpower from Denton’s Lawyers, Pertemps Edinburgh, Perk UK and Lloyd’s Bank, and materials and labour from Mark Miller Landscapes, R&B Nurseries and Jewson’s Timber to fix the much loved but damaged polytunnel. Hamilton Waste & Recycling also donated us a skip so that we could clear the vandalised greenhouse and make a perfect fire pit area for our Harvest Gathering, the refreshments for which Scotmid kindly donated – including the marshmallows! And this website and our logo and branding has been created for us by the amazing team at Multiply, thank you.

We are constantly in need of wood chip for pathways, building materials to improve and increase the allotment plots and garden areas and general man power to drive the project forwards. We’d love funding to develop the play park and wildlife garden and we could use an architect’s mind and skills to redesign old buildings. . . Our imagination could run wild!

If you have a donation that you think might be useful but it’s not on this list, please get in touch to discuss this as we might just not have thought of it yet!