by Caroline Bruns of 'Totally Wild UK' Study Mushroom Identification: Begin by familiarising yourself with common wild mushroom species found in the UK. Understand their distinctive characteristics, habitat preferences, and growth patterns. Join Foraging Courses and...
Highland Good Food's podcast looks at different approaches and ways of composting across Highland, whether you're doing it at home, with council collections, or at your local community garden. With Pamela Sutherland, Head Gardener at Inverness Botanic Gardens. Listen...
Barley was the most cultivated cereal through the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. Around 8,000 years ago a single gene mutation in a barley plant in northern Iran enabled it to freely shed its husks when harvested and threshed, so the grain could be eaten without...
by Janet Ullman, Amphibian and Reptile Conservation janet.ullman@arc-trust.org Saving Scotland's Amphibians and Reptiles is a project of Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (ARC). We work with crofters to support their needs in establishing or maintaining populations...
by Anne MacLennan Salmon farming is unsustainable according to a report published last month. Aquaculture is the fastest food production system in the world. Farmed fish have outnumbered wild-caught fish since 2022. Seventy percent of salmon are now farmed, with...
The UK government's Department of Health and Social Care had planned to encourage retailers to shift the balance of price promotions towards "minimally processed foods" - which includes fruit, vegetables, beans, whole grains like rice and pasta, and unprocessed meat....
by Anne MacLennan Skye's Scottish Salmon Think-Tank (SST-T) recently joined the Coastal Communities Network, a community-led network of local groups ‘committed to the preservation and safeguarding of Scotland’s coastal and marine environments’. Formed in 2017 with...
Is regenerative agriculture really the answer? Listen to Highland Good Food's latest podcast on Regenerative Farming and Regenerative Agriculture - concepts that have been around longer than you might expect. But what do they truly mean, and how are these...
by Anne MacLennan ReRoot is about Working together to create a more connected, healthy, sustainable and resilient food economy in Broadford and beyond. Here are some reasons that this is important. Health and prosperity Two major reports published in October and...
by Anne MacLennan In November, the ReRoot film club watched Until the end of the World, a disturbing look at fish farming and its impacts in Europe, Africa and Antarctica. The film maker visited farms, feed-processing facilities and local communities. He discovered...