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What's on at Whitmuir

There are lots of ways to keep up to date with what's happening at Whitmuir the Organic Place.

   

     Occasional Evenings

     in the Restaurant

BOOK NOW for Friday 10 September - our next occassional evening - evening organic meal

      I declare this Giant Bee

      Hive open!

    

Peter and Joyce Jack, with Sally Bowie and her sons - opening the giant bee hive on Friday 20 Aug.

Inside the giant hive there's an observation hive where you can safely see the bees at work.

Thurs 16 Sept - 7-8.30pm               Farm Supporters Evening
Join us for a stroll round the farm and behind the scenes at Whitmuir, find out about what goes on as we try to make this working farm work. Open to all old and new farm supporters.

Operation Tipi

The Tipi is here - we are working on a programme of events and are keen to recruit story tellers to use the space for regular story telling sessions at the weekend and after school.

                                 

 

Organic Food and Farm events - lots to do and see

We’re passionate about organic food and farming and with Whitmuir's year-round programme of Food and Farm events (see left) and our Farm Walks  there's always something new to see, do and learn on the farm.

We hope you’ll enjoy our state of the art green building too,  with its low carbon concrete, local larch and sheeps wool insulation to make it climate-friendly.  Photovoltaic panels, wind turbine and ground source heat pump combine to make the whole project carbon-positive. Sounds worthy, looks beautiful.

 

Whitmuir Farm Walks

Visit the farmAs a Soil Association open farm we positively encourage visitors to walk up through the farm and learn about organic farming. 

We are a working farm with livestock (cows, sheep, pigs, hens and turkeys) any visiting dogs must be kept on the main path on short leads and they must be regularly wormed (within 3 months of visit).

We will be improving the farm signage to make this more visitor friendly.  Farm staff will accompany people when they can, but this is not always possible.  A guided walk usually takes  place each Saturday at 1pm. Wellies always recommended.  For keen walkers, there is a route through the farm and Grassfield Forest over to Eddleston and Peebles.

We enjoy hosting visits from schools, agricultural students and community groups and are happy to come and talk to your group about local and organic food.  A guided walk for your group can be organised by arrangement.  Please contact us to arrange your visit.

Whitmuir the Organic Place - Food and Farm news

Wee ducks and wee hens

Keep up to date by signing up to the latest Food and Farm news and see our photo sets on Flickr (opens in new window).

Or better still Join the Farm so you can be a real part of the action

The Whitmuir Initiative

We have established the Whitmuir Initiative, a charitable Trust. The WI have secured £10,000 from Awards for All to fund The Scottish Bee Project - see above.

With the invaluable support of Peter and Joyce Jack and their fellow bee keepers, the project will run 8 bee hives, the observation hive and develop a programme of educational work on bee keeping.

We are also developing a medicinal herb garden, run by Julia Cook