We’ll hopefully be able to reschedule this discussion as part of our usual annual programme of talks and events.
Keep an eye out here on our events calendar where we’ll publish this year’s series shortly, and you’ll be able to sign up for all of the Zooms!
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Come and share the way your site welcomes new people and helps them settle into Glasgow.
Plants for dyeing beautiful textiles described by India from Wild Hues and weaving fences and artefacts from Christine and Patsy at Springburn.
Many new plot-holders cultivate plants from their old countries.
Come and share your favourite recipes from the plants and fruit on your plot.
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 garden
– Maintaining a forest garden
– Cooking and eating from forest gardens
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 crops, Toby Hodgkin worked on conservation of traditional crop varieties throughout the world for over 20 years and is now based in Leith, spending time at Earth in Common – a Leith-based Community Croft.
Richie Walsh is the Scotland Coordinator for The Gaia Foundation’s Seed Sovereignty Programme. He has a background in amenity horticulture, horticultural therapy and organic crop protection. He has a specific interest in heritage Scottish vegetable varieties.
Désirée Coral is an Ecuadorian-born artist, and is currently a PhD student at DJCAD. A component of her research investigates the botanical trajectories of dyes. She explores and examines early global exchanges of plants and seeds, from the Americas to the rest of the world and vice versa.
Rowan Lear is an artist, researcher, and a caretaker of Glasgow Seed Library since 2019.
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