Friends of Campbell Park

13/02/2026

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02/12/2025

Dear Friends of Healthy, Edible & Biodiverse Landscapes, here's an Advent Calendar with a difference. Over the next 24 days, join us on a journey through inspiring ideas, practices, and activities related to healthy, edible, and biodiverse landscapes. The posts are translated into two languages, German and English. The links will lead to the original sources, where you can also find the resources in other languages.

We hope you enjoy discovering them!

/from MuLa Team has created an advent calendar for you! Happy holidays! :)

01/12/2025

Many thanks to the many volunteers who turned out on Saturday to help us build over 30 bird boxes for the feathered 🪶 Friends of Campbell Park.

The will be installed during our next & volunteers morning on the morning of 12 December 2025.

In this photo, Harris (6), Arran (11), Finlay (13) and John McLure (44) were rightly proud of the supersized birdboxes for Starlings they made, using donated wood from . 👏

They seemed pretty pleased with their four creations too. 👍 👍 👍 👍

01/12/2025

Fruit tree companion plants for a more resilient and self sustaining food forest system:

07/11/2025

Many thanks to The Builders Supply Company at Longstone for donating enough timber to make 10 luxury Starling bird boxes for Campbell Park during our Christmas Crafts workshops on 29 November.

(See FCP page for booking details).

25/10/2025

Just 10 workshop places remaining at 3pm. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/craft-workshop-tickets-1848998366889?aff=oddtdtcreator

12/10/2025

Despite our orchard trees being stripped of fruit early on (by someone not very community minded) we are very fortunate to have many kind neighbours happy to share surplus fruit from their own gardens. So please help yourself to a few apples from the new harvest fruit sharing table in Campbell Park. 🍎 🍎 🍎

01/10/2025

As September wanes, asters are waxing, their starburst petals lighting up the region's old pastures and woodland edges in shades of pink, purple, and white. Many species that have "aster" in their common name have recently been sorted into other genera, including Symphyotrichum, Doellingeria, Eurybia, and Ionactis, but they still belong to the aster family (Asteraceae). Members of the aster family share a unique type of inflorescence consisting of many tiny flowers clustered in a flower head that forms a false "flower." The individual flowers can be one of several types, most commonly ray and disk flowers. The showy, sterile ray flowers act as "petals" to attract insects, while the central disk flowers, which contain the reproductive organs, can be male and then female to ensure pollination as insects forage for pollen and nectar. This division of labor within the flower head enables increased efficiency in attracting and interacting with pollinators. So when you see a familiar aster, take a closer look—and marvel at another evolutionary adaptation that links plants and pollinators.

Photo collage: Common Northeast asters, Uli Lorimer © Native Plant Trust

12/09/2025

Who knew that slate collars would be quite SO effective at keeping couch grass out of the fruit tree guilds in our community orchard? They make w**ding so much more fun.

26/08/2025

Is anyone missing this 14 speed 'Merida' childs bike. Looks like it's been stolen a few days ago and dumped opposite 28 West Mill Lane.

11/08/2025

Hey people, we don't know about you, but we think are doing a great job campaigning for a "pesticide free Edinburgh". 👍

They're very close to achieving their target of 4000 petition signatures to give to The City of Edinburgh Council. Let's help them get their petition over the line. 🙏

Please sign and share the Pesticide Free Edinburgh Petition, asking for safe alternatives .

Edinburgh City Council use pesticides for w**d control on our streets, pavements, parks, playgrounds, around schools, cemeteries and green spaces. Pesticide use has multiple harmful effects on human and animal health and causes environmental pollution and degradation. The notorious chemical Glyphosa...

07/08/2025

This weekend is your LAST chance to join in the 2025 Big Butterfly Count, running until 10 August 2025 and we're giving away free apples to everyone who takes part in our community orchard!

Simply download the Big Butterfly Count 2025 app to your mobile phone and head down to the Friends of Campbell Park orchard to choose your favourite sit spot.

https://butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blog/big-butterfly-count-2025-is-underway

Please don't pick fruit hanging on the trees when there's so much ripe fruit on the ground waiting to be eaten. There are 18 apple trees, and at least a dozen are dropping apples now. Feel free to try a few and tell us which trees taste the best. 🙏 🍎 😋