Scotland's Sustainable Local Food Network
Our email address for general enquiries is:- info@nourishscotland.org.uk
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We hope you enjoy using this site to network and connect to others who are interested in local food. Do invite other local food activitists and food groups to join up!
The Declaration of Dunbar
We are working towards a sustainable Scotland in which, in every region we produce more of what we eat and eat more of what we produce.
We believe a more localised food system would be better for the environment, health, community and economy of our country. We are building a movement to create a food system that is:
• Locally based with shorter supply chains
• Promotes and respects seasonality
• Resilient
• Fair and accessible to all
• Creates and maintains a sustainable livelihood for producers
These steps are essential in order to ensure a fairer more equitable food system appropriate for a low carbon economy.
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Posted by Alan Brown on May 17, 2012 at 15:54 0 Comments 0 Likes
Scottish Gov seem to be waking up to the concept, with this press release:
The increasing appetite for ‘grow your own’ was served up a cash boost today by Environment Minister Stewart Stevenson. Mr Stevenson announced a £600,000 package of support to encourage the development of more community growing and support the growth of Scotland’s grow your own sector.
For more info go to:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2012/05/fundingboost17052012
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Posted by Mike Small on May 16, 2012 at 13:58 0 Comments 0 Likes
Hi Nourish - we are currently looking for an experienced Project Coordinator to join our team for 12 months whilst our Development Director is on Maternity Leave.
Fife Diet Project Coordinator, Part Time, Maternity Cover
Fife Diet is a members-led project which aims to
Our new Local Food Solutions project will reduce the carbon footprint of participants through community engagement around food throughout Fife. We are looking for an enthusiastic and suitably experienced project coordinator with project management experience.
Full details are here:…
ContinuePosted by Eva Schonveld on May 11, 2012 at 17:21 0 Comments 1 Like
Here's the courses I'm running over the next 12 months.
* Short design course - Fife
Venue - Monimail Tower
Dates - Thursday 2 to Tuesday 7 August 2012 (over a bank holiday weekend)
Price - Sliding scale from £200 to £360 + optional camping at £5/night. Subsidised places available on request.
* Introduction weekend
Venue - The Big Shed, Tom Breck, Loch Tay, Perthshire.…
Posted by Gavin McGregor on May 11, 2012 at 11:01 0 Comments 1 Like
The Otesha Project's team of volunteers is taking shape for the Tastetastic summer cycle tour, which will be exploring and spreading the word about food sustainability in southern Scotland. We're now around 20-strong!
The team will be trained to deliver workshops on food sustainability, which they'll deliver at schools and community events en route. They'll also be visiting and volunteering at sustainable food projects - and promoting those projects as they go, by blogging, talking to the media and telling the children and teachers they meet. And they'll be living low-impact together in the saddle, 'cycling the talk', if you like (sorry).
And it's going to be a learning experience for the team, too, as they explore and debate everything from trade and transport, to…
ContinuePosted by Eva Schonveld on May 7, 2012 at 8:17 0 Comments 0 Likes
A blog on forest gardening in Scotland has now been online for twelve months, meaning that it now carries dispatches from a whole year's growing cycle. The blog reports on a 10-year-old project to adapt forest garden plants and growing techniques to an ordinary size allotment in the north east of Scotland.
Posted by Mike Small on May 3, 2012 at 16:33 0 Comments 0 Likes
Blasda 2012 - Scotland's local food feast - will be on and around Saturday September 15, as part of Food and Drink Fortnight. It will again be a celebration of
regional food variations, community growing and an opportunity to 'connect up' the local food movement. The project is open to all and we are again looking for a great spread from highland to lowland and from urban and rural Scotland.
The Fife Diet is co-ordinating the project in collaboration with the Hiddens Gardens, which will be delivering the 'Culture Kitchen…
Posted by Eva Schonveld on April 28, 2012 at 19:19 0 Comments 0 Likes
Local food farmer of the year award is one of the categories in the Farmers Weekly annual awards, closing date 30th April. See link:
http://awards.fwi.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Local_Food_Farmer.pdf
Posted by Eva Schonveld on April 28, 2012 at 19:11 0 Comments 0 Likes
Disillusioned by the unfulfilled promise of the cities and feeling stifled by tough austerity measures aimed at coping with an economic downturn, some Portuguese are opting out and returning to the land.
Jose Diogo, who spent two years in Lisbon working as a technical advisor at a meat company, was one who fled at the beginning of Portugal's debt crisis in 2009, and has no regrets.
"I lived in Lisbon and decided to go back home to the interior to grab the opportunity of exploring the land my father owned," Diogo said on the porch at his stone farm house, looking out over apple orchards and grazing fields for his 30 cows.
Read more here:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/04/19/uk-portugal-land-idUKBRE83I0EW20120419
Posted by Portobello Market on April 25, 2012 at 17:29 0 Comments 0 Likes
Saturday 5th May is Portobello Market day!
This month: Following on from the fantastic success of the Easter market, we are once again offering entertainment: AnnieD will be appearing with her amazing face painting and a young student duo will be providing great music in two 1-hour sets.
Our traders this month include:
Award winning oils, fresh fish and meats, artisan cheeses, unique snacks, hand made soaps, cards and gifts, seasonal vegetable, sushi and noodles, organic herbal teas, knitted gifts, Fair Trade products and a first class BBQ for those hungry mouths.
So come along on the 5th and support your local sustainable market and find out about the exciting developments for the next market in June when we will have a first in the UK piece of entertainment!!!
Where: Brighton Park, Brighton Place, Portobello, Edinburgh, EH15 1LJ
When:…
ContinuePosted by john hancox on April 23, 2012 at 17:00 1 Comment 0 Likes
Folks - we are having a blossom day in the Children's garden Tuesday - tomorrow to celebrate all the school and community orchards we've got planted over the past season. We are still able to supply fruit trees for a few weeks yet (trees are in cool store) if you want to grow your own.
Details below:
see www.fruitfulschools.com or www.scottishfruittrees.com
Blossom Day @ the Children's Garden, Glasgow Botanic Gardens, celebrating the start of the apple blossom season, and the success of the Fruitful schools project.
Time - 1.30 PM - Date 24th April 2012
Organiser John Hancox, Fruitful Schools - 0778 606 3918
Children from nurseries will be at the Children's Garden, "wassailing" the trees and encouraging a bumper harvest. (Children have photo permissions)
Editorial:
Across Scotland over the past couple of years the…
September 15, 2012 all day – Kilncraigs,
pete ritchie posted an event
Mike Small liked Gavin McGregor's blog post Tastetastic sustainable food cycle tour - our team is taking shape© 2012 Created by Alan Brown.