Climavore is a social enterprise that collaborates with local residents, schools, restaurants, and international researchers and activists, to develop new approaches to regenerative sea-farming and food waste. Closing date 8 June.
by Anne MacLennan ReRoot has been quiet since the successful Feel Heal Real Food event at the end of April, but things are happening behind the scenes to build on the enthusiasm for transforming our food system evident that day. Sarah Bower, a trustee of the Highland...
At Ardmore Bay, Waternish, SSEN plans to lay a cable across a centuries-old maerl bed, a vital blue carbon sink and a declining and threatened habitat. This is despite NatureScot recommendations that Ardmore Bay and the adjacent Loch Bay be designated as a Proposed...
by Gill TerryRagTag has received funding from Highland Council under its Reuse and Repair Fund to run a Skills Cafe in Broadford. The purpose of this will be to upskill individuals in a range of subjects, with the aim, of course, of keeping material out of landfill....
An estimated 250-300 people visited the Feel Heal Real Food day last Saturday in Broadford. The event aimed to start a conversation about improving local food resilience and access to healthy, sustainable, affordable and locally produced food. It came at a time when...
The Waternish Wildlife Alliance is a community group based on Waternish trying to sustain and restore Waternish's unique biodiversity. We are extremely lucky to have a centuries-old, 6-hectare maerl bed, a vital blue carbon sink and sadly a 'declining and threatened'...
Local food action group ReRoot is organising an interactive food information day called Feel Heal Real Food, on Saturday 25 April, at Broadford Village Hall, from 11 am to 4 pm. The aim is to encourage and inspire a conversation around healthy diets, strengthening our...
... one rhododendron at a time Raasay has made huge progress with controlling the invasive purple-flowered Rhododendron ponticum, which destroys biodiversity by shading out almost all other plants beneath its canopy. In just over a year, over 160 hectares have been...
Farmed salmon mortalityCalls for an overhaul of the regulatory system have followed the revelation that Scottish salmon farmers recorded more than 35 million unexpected salmon deaths in just under three years, but there were only two unannounced inspections...
by Anne MacLennan An impressive group of scientists, academics and policy makers recently published an alarming article to raise awareness of the rising risk of acute food shocks in the UK. A food shock is when food is suddenly unavailable and/or prices rocket, with...