The council’s Grow Your Own Fund has been shared between 13 groups who work to create gardens and growing spaces for food and food education programmes.

Applications have now been assessed and awarded to groups all over Edinburgh. Amongst the initiatives are Tuk Tuk and Grow, which brings mobile growing and cooking sessions to families across Edinburgh using a tuk tuk bike, and Nuclear Growth, which plans to set up a food growing project on the site of a former nuclear bunker on Corstorphine Hill.

Money will be used for all parts of the projects from buying seeds to paying staff.

Cllr Margaret Graham, Culture and Communities Convener, said: “The standard of applications to the fund was extremely high, and the panel were really impressed – the successful projects demonstrate real creativ

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