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Edinburgh Community Backgreens Association is a community enterprise created to inspire and support residents to regenerate tenement backgreens into community greenspaces which build a sense of neighbourhood and improve the environmental sustainability of the households that live around them. Just over half of Edinburgh households live in tenements. Tenement backgreens range widely, some are urban oases, many others are just a square of grass with some drying poles, and the worst are inaccessible jungles. We believe that backgreens can offer much more, they can be diverse beautiful greenspaces which provide a place for relaxation and recreation, places for growing food and meeting neighbours. By linking neighbouring backgreens, we can create 'community backgreens', which share common facilities like tool sheds or play facilities for children. ECBA was set up to support residents to create community backgreens. On this site you will find information about the sites we already work at, how to set up a community backgreen, and the services we provide to tenement households to enrich and maintain their backgreens.

I'm a first time garden owner and not really sure where to start. My husband and I are pretty busy with our work, and I travel a lot so our garden is currently bigger than we need or can manage ourselves. We're keen to grow some fruit and vege but aim to start small. I work in overseas development and my husband works in renewable energy. We both love the mountains.

I have a reasonably large city garden with space to grow fruit, veg and lots of flowers. I am a complete garden "greenie" who has very little time to get to grips with gardening and the garden is going wild! So, I am looking for help, advice and moral support to deal with the jungle that has developed through lack of time and care! If you can help, then please let me know......thanks.

I am a keen gardener but dont have the space for vegetables having a small walled garden in the city centre. I would be delighted if someone needs help with a large garden that maybe has become too overgrown for them if I could take a space for fruit and veg that we can share!

Hi my name is Graham, I am a keen grow my own grow gardener with a few years under my belt. My last couple of flats had restrictions on what i could do in them and I have just moved into a new flat which unfortunately is the same !! dam red tape !! I love to watch and nurture wildlife and have had some great experience in the last couple of years on both large and small scale. Im looking for something close to me that I can come and tend, and also help with other works that are needed. Im not afraid of hard work :) I have attached a couple of images of some of what I have done most recently Please get intouch as with your land and my motivation to grown my own we could create something that looks and tastes great :) Thanks for reading

I'm a fun, friendly, young guy looking to grow my own fruit and veg. his has been an interest of mine for sometime and I would now like to take this hobby to the next sttage.

I grew up helping my father in his garden which was (and still is) full of staple vegetables such as potatoes, onions, leeks, carrots, peas and beans etc, plus a 30 foot greenhouse filled with bedding plants in the spring and tomatoes in the summer. I worked as a self-employed gardener for 7 years down in Yorkshire from 2003 and, after moving up to Edinburgh I also worked as a gardener in 2011. The flat in which I am staying though, unfortunately has no available vegetable growing area in the garden, which belongs to my landlord - it is solely a flower garden. I am looking for the opportunity to be able to help either get an overgrown garden back into a fit state to be able to grow veg and maybe fruit, or to help someone with their established garden in return for some veg etc. I have a basic selection of my own hand tools and a chainsaw, (with a licence), plus plenty of free time and energy.

Edinburgh Garden Partners matches people who have land to spare, with people who want to garden. We currently have a project covering the Gilmerton area, and hope to soon have funding to cover Leith and adjacent areas of North Edinburgh. We are keen to support elderly and disabled garden owners to take part in Landsharing. Find out more about us at: www.edinburghgardenpartners.org.uk

I like growing veggies and have had some success in the past but haven't much time at the moment, hopefully soon..! I value self sufficiency, hands on skills, and sharing. I have some pepper plants I've nurtured in my window which are loooking a little sad but will be much happier when they move to a sunnier spot!