Real estate case study: Lauriston Farm

Sustainability. We mean it.

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9 June 2025 |

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Sustainability is at the heart of everything the Federated Hermes’ Real Estate team does. In this video, we look at our involvement in Lauriston Farm, Edinburgh. An urban farming scheme offering a local, nature-based response to the combined challenges of climate change, biodiversity collapse and the lack of access for all to healthy, fresh and affordable food.

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Biodiversity: The farm has a mission to increase biodiversity – taking it from a simplified and depleted landscape to a vibrant, resilient part of the local ecosystem, using agroecology. One third of Lauriston Farm land is designed for wildlife habitat.

Food production: The farm’s mission is to grow fresh, nutritious food for our neighbourhood, using agroecology.

Community: The farm aims to reconnect this farm with its community. As an agroecological farm, the work includes providing opportunities for people to learn food growing and land-work skills, building social connections around food, and collaborating to address access and equity issues and bring back a local food system.