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Category: Food growing

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On the Twelth Day of Christmas…

Tue, 05 Jan 2021Wed, 23 Dec 2020

On the twelth day of Christmas my true love shared with me 12 tips for food growing Heard on the radio, the third most googled item to buy in the …

Posted in Christmas, Edible Campus, Food growing, Transition University of St Andrews  • 

Pesto galore

Fri, 26 Jun 2020Fri, 26 Jun 2020

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 …

Posted in Edible Campus, Food, Food growing  • 

The Co-operative Resurgence

Tue, 19 May 2020Tue, 19 May 2020

It’s week 8 of lockdown, I had just sat my last university exam and after 2 months of being a slave to my desk I was finally free. I’d seen …

Posted in Food, Food growing, Sustainable Living, Uncategorized  • 

Workshop: Seasonal veg growing in Strathkinness Q&A

Fri, 17 Apr 2020Fri, 17 Apr 2020

After the resounding success of our first online gardening workshop on seed sowing last week, we continued today with another one presented by another local veg growing guru, Bob Bilson …

Posted in Edible Campus, Food growing  • 
Participants in the seed sowing workshop

Workshop: Sowing seeds for your veg plot

Thu, 09 Apr 2020Thu, 09 Apr 2020

Above is a recording of an online gardening workshop from Tuesday, 7th of April. The workshop covers basic spring veg seed sowing tips and reusing your recycling for plant pots …

Posted in Edible Campus, Food growing  • 
Ideas for pots

Gardening at home – No pots? No problem!

Fri, 27 Mar 2020Sat, 28 Mar 2020

It’s March 2020, we’ve all suddenly had a bit of a shock regarding our ability to go and buy food, either through limited access to shops (self isolation) or limited …

Posted in Edible Campus, Food growing, Sustainable Living  • 

THE HUNGRY MONTHS

Mon, 23 Mar 2020Tue, 31 Mar 2020

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 …

Posted in Edible Campus, Food, Food growing, Recipe, Urban farm and community garden  • 
A group photo with Geoff Squires at the farm

Farming for the zero carbon future – a visit at James Hutton Institute

Thu, 23 Jan 2020Thu, 23 Jan 2020

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 …

Posted in Edible Campus, Food growing  • 
A photo of Elliott and June with broadfork

It is all gone quiet at the Farm

Tue, 10 Dec 2019Thu, 09 Jan 2020

Elliott and June give us an update on Urban Farm’s successes and plans for the next growing season.

Posted in Food growing, Urban farm and community garden  • 

Loving Leaf Mulch

Thu, 14 Nov 2019Thu, 14 Nov 2019

This time every year we witness the leaves from the trees change colour and fall to the ground, their job of making energy for the trees to grow is over …

Posted in Edible Campus, Food growing  • 

Climate Change and Water

Thu, 24 Oct 2019Thu, 24 Oct 2019

Climate change has manifest itself in many ways around the world, from record summer extreme temperatures, to the melting of the polar icecaps and glaciers, leading to sea level rises, …

Posted in Climate change, Energy, Food, Food growing, International, Re-use, United Nations, Zero Waste  • 

How to Use All Those Runner Beans

Mon, 23 Sep 2019Wed, 22 Jan 2020

Isabelle Low Our Edible Campus gardens are currently awash with runner beans. They are one of the superheroes of any vegetable garden: reliable to grow, prolificly productive, no significant predators …

Posted in Edible Campus, Food growing, Recipe  • 

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