This December Climate Challenge Fund hosted a food project network event which two of our team went along to.
Drinking camomile tea
We love growing things here at Beith Community Development Trust and always look forward to getting ideas for new ways to grow food!
CCF has been involved with projects across Scotland which grow food, develop skills and land to grow food and even run cookery classes and deal with food waste. So for this one day representatives from projects across Scotland, with one lady coming all the way from Barra, came together to share ideas and encourage each other.
We also heard from the organisers of the Nourish conference back in October (we loved being at this too) and refreshed our memories and talk about the big picture of Scotland and food or lack of it.
So aside from getting to have good ol’ chin wag what did we learn?
Well among many other things we learned that you can grow mushrooms in a book and that garlic needs to sit in the ground during a frost before it can grow and make our meals so delicious!
We also learnt a bit more about foodbanks and why we shouldn’t just accept that they’re here to stay but do something about it, we talked about all the food that big companies throw out which could be eaten and we talked about getting to know our communities by having big meals together!
All in all it was an interesting and inspiring day.
