by Shona CameronCLIMAVORE CIC has secured £15,000 funding from The National Lottery Community Fund’s Small Eco Awards programme to develop a community-led Tidal Garden in Skye, creating a new space for people to connect with the intertidal environment and each...
by John Coghill, araich.co.uk Something good is growing here, and we need your help to bring our vision to life. àraich (pronounced AAH-rich) is a community kitchen, café, wholefoods shop and events space at the Old Woollen Mill in Portree. It’s a place for real,...
by Anne MacLennan This event is for food forest practitioners, researchers, educators, chefs and others interested in sustainable food and growing. The symposium will share stories from thriving food forests, and discuss the latest research, educational initiatives...
Dun Flashadder Cottage Croft, near Edinbane, has won Best Food Producer in the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2026.Jake Sayles, Aoife Gould and their daughter Corran produce Hebridean hogget and mangalitsa pork. Alongside livestock farming, they manage a mature fruit...
In June First Minister John Swinney announced the formation of the Public Sector Food Procurement taskforce, to support the maximising of locally produced food and drink consumed in public sector organisations like hospitals, schools and government...
Listen to a BBC podcast from the Abergavenny Food Festival asking why food is costing so much more than it used to, while farmers, growers and food businesses are struggling with rising costs, squeezed margins and growing uncertainty. Who is benefiting from the...
John Coghill (who created fabulous food for the Feel Heal Real Food sustainable food day in April) and his team have launched àraich, at the Old Woolen Mill in Portree (next to Howdens). àraich is a community kitchen, café, whole foods shop and events space....
Broadford and Strath Community Company are advertising for a Community Woodland Manager. It’s a 3-year, 0.6 FTE post. For details visit the website. Closing date 19 October
by Anne MacLennan Data Centres are necessary for current and planned future lifestyles. They enable cloud storage, internet searches, video screening, social media, artificial intelligence training and activity, and so much more. But when is enough enough,...
by Anne MacLennan Over the summer, we have enjoyed visits to several growing spaces. These were arranged as a follow-up to the Feel Heal Real Food day at the end of April, to build on the momentum for local food production. We started with Jo and Alistair’s croft in...