We hope you’re enjoying the colors of autumn as much as we are.
We’re also pretty excited about the amazing colors of veges you can buy in the shop this time of year.
We just love the three special beets which have graced our shelves recently – Choggia, Golden Globe and Cylindra – which just seem destined to make our usual beets and organic beets look rather plain (we’d hate to think how the neeps are feeling…!). Try slow baking them with Read more
We hope to see you there.
Dig-In is proud to be sourcing the best seasonal produce from local growers. We have delicious salads, spinach and chard from Whitmuir Farm, only 20 miles from Edinburgh. Our regular organic deliveries from East Coat Organics in East Lothian including fresh herbs, kohlrabi and new season garlic, as well as their own organic eggs which are proving so popular with you all. Read more
It’s been nearly a month now since the Dig-In doors opened and we can’t quite believe it. How time flies when you’re having fun. But with the fun comes hard work and there’s been plenty of that!
Running the shop is a constant learning process. Working with suppliers, taking deliveries Read more
It’s finally here! Yesterday, Dig-in open its doors (well, door!) to the lovely residents of Bruntsfield and passers by.
We had an amazing first day and can’t thank everyone enough for their words of encouragement and kind comments. We really felt the love.
If you didn’t manage to stop by, don’t worry. Here’s some photos from the day, taken by our volunteer Catriona O’Sullivan. Read more
It’s all hands on deck at Dig-in at the moment for the big day on May 1st. We’ll be posting photos in this gallery everyday to show the progress we are making. To find out more about the opening day, sign up to our mailing list for more information or follow our social media accounts @diginvig on Twitter and /diginbruntsfield on Facebook. Read more
Firstly, we had a fantastic volunteer social at the beginning of April. The shop was packed with people all wanting to help with Dig-In. We hope to see evenings like this become a regular feature in the Dig-In calendar so will keep you posted if any more are organised.
Now, the bit you’ve been waiting for, photos of the shop! We brought in our trusty camera last Friday so we can share with you our progress so far. Enjoy! Read more
Like most Saturday’s, we are open tomorrow for free soup and a chat so shoppers can come in and learn more about Dig-In. That’s not all we’re doing though.
The time has come to roll up our sleeves, get scrubbing and painting, and we need your help! We will be open tomorrow (Saturday 29th March) from 11am-3pm working on giving the downstairs of the shop a little make over. If you want to help, please come along and bring some clothes you don’t mind getting grubby! Read more
You may have noticed that the lovely veg bags that were made and sold a couple of weeks ago had our logo on them. Instead of spending any money to make them, we put our heads together and got creative to brand up our carriers. We used left over materials donated by one of our volunteers, made a stencil and sprayed it on the bags. It was a bit of trial and error but judging by the reaction to the bags, definitely worth it.
Stencilling is a really cheap and easy way to add your brand to something and spread the word. This tutorial will cover how we cut and sprayed the stencil to our bags. Read more
Something happened last Saturday. Something new. Money was exchanged, photos were taken and Tweets were posted. That’s right, we sold our first ever batch of produce. How exciting!
