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  • Presentation: Preserving fruit and veg, and seed-saving (Food Sustainability)

    We  had an interesting discussion about preserving our produce, which covered a range of topics from seed-saving to sauerkraut. We’ve written up a summary on the various techniques people have been using, with references to other sources of information and advice in our record of  the session:

  • Food & Climate Action Project

    Our friends over at the Glasgow Community Food Network (GCFN) are organising around COP26, and would like to invite you to join them for a variety of interesting events led by their Food & Climate Action project team – some for you to listen to, others to learn from and others to support you to take action. […]

  • Recipes for Resilience

    With a mix of online events and physical sessions on Houldsworth Street in the West End (G3),  this is a 12-day event dedicated to food and climate during COP26.

  • Global Day of Action

    World leaders will meet in Glasgow in November at the global climate talks. The COP26 Coalition are organising decentralised mass mobilisations across the world, bringing together movements to build power for system change – from indigenous struggles to trade unions, from racial justice groups to youth strikers.

  • The People’s Summit

    While world leaders meet to discuss our future at COP26, attendees will be building power for system change together. Bringing together the climate justice movement to discuss, learn and strategise for system change. Join in online from anywhere in the world, or in-person in Glasgow.

  • AGM 2021 & Award Presentations

    Our Annual General Meeting was held on Zoom this year. Last year we simply published our annual reports but wedidn’t hold a meeting. This year the Committee have decided to go ahead online as conditions don’t seem to warrant meeting together physically this winter. Background GAF was started in 2001 to give a voice to […]

  • Peat Free Growing // FebFest Day 1 of 6

    Anton Rosenfeld has been with Garden Organic for 15 years. His work has ranged from projects with commercial field-scale growers to small-scale community gardens and allotments. He has worked as a grower, runs many training courses and regularly writes for Grow Your Own and Kitchen Garden magazine. He has a passion for soils, composting and growing […]

  • Lost and Found: vegetable journeys and seed diversity // FebFest Day 2 of 6

    Take a journey through the past and present trajectories of Scottish heritage vegetables. Rowan Lear will introduce Glasgow Seed Library and chair a panel of local speakers, each with a perspective on plant biodiversity and traditional varieties, why we want to grow them and how best to do this. Trained as a plant breeder of vegetable […]

  • Allotment Forest Gardening // FebFest Day 3 of 6

    Watch the recording A different type of cultivation based mostly on perennial leaf, shoot, fruit and nut crops. Alan Carter, author of ‘A Food Forest – plant it, grow it, cook it’, will talk about his experiences over twenty years on his allotment and answer questions on: – Designing a forest garden– Implementing a forest […]