Taking Action: Community Plants New Woodland In honour of the recent COP26 conference in Glasgow, The St Andrews Forest, Meadows in the Making and the St Andrews Botanic Garden teams …
Green Hay Day: How to Make a Meadow
Green Hay Day: How to Make a Meadow Developing our meadows and enriching our greenspaces in St Andrews is the aim of the Meadows in the Making project – and …
Pesto galore
Edible Campus volunteer Isabelle Low writes: Hooray! The hungry months are over; and we are now starting to have to deal with seasonal gluts instead. I have a little veg …
Eating dandelions
Edible Campus volunteer Isabelle Low writes: Annoying weed or good for the environment? Bumble bees, beetles, birds, butterflies and a host of other beneficial insects all look to the dandelion …
Lots of Rhubarb!
Edible Campus volunteer Isabelle Low writes: Lots of rhubarb in all the Edible Campus gardens at present: fresh and juicy. As well as rhubarb crumble, why not try making rhubarb …
Another two nettle recipes
Edible Campus volunteer Isabelle Low writes: Here is a further recipe using seasonal nettles. Thanks to Lindy Maclean for sharing this recipe. Ingredients 200g freshly picked nettle tops 1kg granulated …
What to eat in Spring
Edible Campus volunteer Isabelle Low writes: as I posted last month, we are now into the hungry months when locally sourced fresh veg is hard to come by. So let …
THE HUNGRY MONTHS
By Isabelle Low Come spring, the winter crops of cabbage and kale and leeks have bolted and the stores of potatoes, onions and roots are running out. Spring vegetables have …
Farming for the zero carbon future – a visit at James Hutton Institute
Today we heard from Climate Change Commission that UK must cut land use emissions by two thirds to meet our goal of zero carbon by 2050. There has been much …
What to Eat Now – January
Are you doing Veganuary? Good for you! A few suggestions. On a vegan diet, it’s really important to make sure that you eat a balance of 50% vegetables and fruit, …
Edible Campus Christmas Vegetables
By Isabelle Low Whether your centrepiece is a turkey (hopefully organic and free range) or like me a stuffed portobello mushroom, there needs to be a lot of traditional vegetables …
How to Use all those Potatoes
By Isabelle Low Lots of potatoes being lifted this month in our Edible Campus gardens. To keep them fresh for as long as possible, clean off as much soil as …
