Highland Good Food Conversation

Transition Black Isle has been investigating the possibility of setting up a food hub, in part through frustration that the community markets we previously ran are no longer able to continue due to covid. The plans for the hub have stalled due to health problems with the guy who was leading, Crocket...

Jon Palmer kindly forwarded a message from Inverness Farmers' Market which highlights the shortage of locally produced veg. To quote, "Hardmuir do not come back until June/July and Donnie is very busy and may not manage every market. A Farmers market needs a vegetable stall Kind Regards Debbie ...

There's already this https://www.agricology.co.uk/, and I suspect there must be other sources around.

This website https://www.agricology.co.uk/ has a huge amount of practical info - some peer-reviewed scientific stuff and some less formal, personal experience.

My take on this is that everyone's boundaries are different. This conference (and now this movement) is about food that's good for the environment, people and producers. Anything that fits that bill is fair game, but we have to respect different views, not just within this group but in the wider wor...

There's quite a lot of experience of different platforms around. TBI has been looking at using Neighbourfoods for a Black Isle Food Hub, and there were two attempts around here to set up hubs after the Food Assembly platform was pulled from the UK market. Emma ran one, using software developed by a ...

Just reading through your Padlet from week 4 and it struck me that CES could be a useful organisation to contact. Their CEO is also a Pebble Trust trustee.

Anna, I agree with what you say, and that's very much on our agenda. And I also agree with Peter and Jon that it would be useful for their individual groups to explore shared ground before we get into thoughts of an umbrella group. Let's see how far we can get during the conference with existing str...

This might be relevant to your project? https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/transf ... vironment/